| Chapter 3 |
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\2:28\And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send
my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your
old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions: |
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\2:29\And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send
my spirit. |
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\2:30\And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth,
blood and fire and pillars of smoke. |
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\2:31\The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the
great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared. |
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\2:32\And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the
Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept
safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the
Lord. |
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\3:1\For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and
Jerusalem be changed, |
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\3:2\I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into
the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my
people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the
nations, and of my land which has been parted by them. |
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\3:3\And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance:
giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine. |
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\3:4\And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle
of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and
suddenly I will send it back on your head, |
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\3:5\For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of
your gods my beautiful and pleasing things. |
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\3:6\And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have
given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their
land: |
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\3:7\See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them,
and will let what you have done come back on your head; |
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\3:8\I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the
children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of
Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it. |
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\3:9\Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong
men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up. |
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\3:10\Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives
into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong. |
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\3:11\Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves
together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord. |
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\3:12\Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat:
for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about. |
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\3:13\Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for
the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their
evil-doing. |
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\3:14\Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord
is near in the valley of decision. |
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\3:15\The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back
their shining. |
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\3:16\And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be
sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the
Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of
Israel. |
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\3:17\And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in
Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will
ever again go through her. |
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\3:18\And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be
dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the
streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from
the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees. |
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\3:19\Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of
the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained
out in their land without cause. |
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\3:20\But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
to generation. |
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\3:21\And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment
has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion. |