4 Moreover, what are you to Me, aTyre, Sidon, and all the regions of bPhilistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution? But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will creturn your retribution on your head!Is 23:1-18; Amos 1:9, 10; Zech 9:2-4; Matt 11:21, 22; Luke 10:13, 14Is 14:29-31; Jer 47:1-7; Ezek 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zech 9:5-7Is 34:8; 59:18 5 Since you have ataken My silver and My gold, brought My precious 1treasures to your temples,Lit goodly things2 Kin 12:18; 2 Chr 21:16, 17 6 and sold the asons of Judah and Jerusalem to the 1Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,Lit sons of JavanEzek 27:13 7 behold, I am going to astir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head.Is 43:5, 6; Jer 23:8; Zech 9:13 8 I will also asell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the bSabeans, to a distant nation,” for the LORD has spoken.Is 14:2; 60:14Job 1:15; Ps 72:10; Ezek 38:13
The Nations Will Be Judged
“1For behold, ain those days and at that time,When I brestore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,Ch 4:1 in HebJer 30:3; Ezek 38:14Jer 16:152 I will agather all the nationsAnd bring them down to the bValley of 1Jehoshaphat.Then I will center into judgment with them thereOn behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,Whom they have dscattered among the nations;And they have edivided up My land.I.e., YHWH judgesIs 66:18; Mic 4:12; Zech 14:2Joel 3:12, 14Is 66:16; Jer 25:31; Ezek 38:22Jer 50:17; Ezek 34:6Ezek 35:10; 36:1-53 “They have also acast lots for My people,1bTraded a boy for a prostitute,And sold a girl for wine so that they may drink.Lit GivenObad 11; Nah 3:10Amos 2:6
9 aProclaim this among the nations:bPrepare for holy war; cstir up the warriors!Have all the soldiers come forward, have them come up!Jer 51:27Jer 6:4; Ezek 38:7; Mic 3:5Is 8:9, 10; Jer 46:3, 4; Zech 14:2, 310 aBeat your plowshares into swords,And your pruning hooks into spears;bLet the weak man say, “I am a warrior.”Is 2:4; Mic 4:3Zech 12:811 1aHurry and come, all you surrounding nations,And gather yourselves there.Bring down, LORD, Your bwarriors.Or Come helpEzek 38:15, 16Is 13:312 Let the nations be awakenedAnd come up to the aValley of 1Jehoshaphat,For there I will sit to bjudgeAll the surrounding nations.I.e., YHWH judgesJoel 3:2, 14Ps 7:6; 96:13; 98:9; Is 2:4; 3:1313 aPut in the sickle, for the bharvest is ripe.Come, ctread the grapes, for the dwine press is full;The vats overflow, for their ewickedness is great.Rev 14:14-19Jer 51:33; Hos 6:11Rev 14:19, 20; 19:15Is 63:3; Lam 1:15Gen 18:2014 aMultitudes, multitudes in the bvalley of 1decision!For the cday of the LORD is near in the valley of 2decision.I.e., God’s verdictIs 34:2-8Joel 3:2, 12Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 3115 The asun and moon have become dark,And the stars have lost their brightness.Joel 2:10, 3116 The LORD aroars from ZionAnd butters His voice from Jerusalem,And the cheavens and the earth quake.But the LORD is a drefuge for His people,And a estronghold for the sons of Israel.Hos 11:10; Amos 1:2Joel 2:11Ezek 38:19; Joel 2:10; Hag 2:6Ps 61:3; Is 33:16; Jer 17:17Jer 16:19; Nah 1:717 Then you will aknow that I am the LORD your God,Dwelling on Zion, My bholy mountain.So Jerusalem will be choly,And dstrangers will no longer pass through it.Joel 2:27Is 11:9; 56:7; Ezek 20:40Is 4:3; Obad 17Is 52:1; Nah 1:15
Judah Will Be Blessed
18 And on that dayThe amountains will drip with 1sweet wine,And the hills will bflow with milk,And all the cbrooks of Judah will flow with water;And a dspring will go out from the house of the LORDAnd water the Valley of 2Shittim.Lit freshly pressed-out grape juiceOr acaciasAmos 9:13Ex 3:8Is 30:25; 35:6Ezek 47:1-1219 Egypt will become a wasteland,And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,Because of the aviolence 1done to the sons of Judah,In whose land they have shed innocent blood.Lit of the sonsObad 1020 But Judah will be ainhabited forever,And Jerusalem for all generations.Ezek 37:25; Amos 9:1521 And I will aavenge their blood which I have not avenged,For the LORD dwells in Zion.Is 4:4