3:1 In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. [Jehoshaphat means the LORD judges also in verse 12.] There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people amo
3:3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
3:4 Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
3:5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
3:6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
3:7 See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
3:8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. The LORD has spoken.
3:9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
3:10 Beat your ploughshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, I am strong!
3:11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD!
3:12 Let the nations be roused let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
3:13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow so great is their wickedness!
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
3:15 The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
3:16 The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
3:17 Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy never again will foreigners invade her.
3:18 In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD’s house and will water the valley of acacias. [Or Valley of Shittim]
3:19 But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
3:20 Judah will be inhabited for ever and Jerusalem through all generations.
3:21 Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon. The LORD dwells in Zion! 1982 AMOS