2:30 I will produce portents both in the sky ¹  and on the earth –

blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

2:31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness

and the moon to the color of blood, ² 

before the day of the Lord comes –

that great and terrible day!

2:32 It will so happen that

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. ³ 

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem ⁴  there will be those who survive, ⁵ 

just as the Lord has promised;

the remnant ⁶  will be those whom the Lord will call. ⁷ 

3:1 ⁸  For look! In those ⁹  days and at that time

I will return the exiles ¹⁰  to Judah and Jerusalem. ¹¹ 

3:2 Then I will gather all the nations,

and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. ¹² 

I will enter into judgment ¹³  against them there

concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, ¹⁴ 

whom they scattered among the nations.

They partitioned my land,

3:3 and they cast lots for my people.

They traded ¹⁵  a boy for a prostitute;

they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. ¹⁶ 

3:4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? ¹⁷ 

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? ¹⁸ 

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! ¹⁹ 

3:5 For you took my silver and my gold

and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. ²⁰ 

3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country. ²¹ 

3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done! ²² 

3:8 I will sell your sons and daughters to ²³  the people of Judah. ²⁴ 

They will sell them to the Sabeans, ²⁵  a nation far away.

Indeed, the Lord has spoken!

3:9 Proclaim this among the nations:

“Prepare for a holy war!

Call out the warriors!

Let all these fighting men approach and attack! ²⁶ 

3:10 Beat your plowshares ²⁷  into swords,

and your pruning hooks ²⁸  into spears! ²⁹ 

Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!’ ³⁰ 

3:11 Lend your aid ³¹  and come,

all you surrounding nations,

and gather yourselves ³²  to that place.”

Bring down, O Lord, your warriors! ³³ 

3:12 Let the nations be roused and let them go up

to the valley of Jehoshaphat,

for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.

3:13 Rush forth with ³⁴  the sickle, for the harvest is ripe!

Come, stomp the grapes, ³⁵  for the winepress is full!

The vats overflow.

Indeed, their evil is great! ³⁶ 

3:14 Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision,

for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision! ³⁷ 

3:15 The sun and moon are darkened;

the stars withhold ³⁸  their brightness.

3:16 The Lord roars from Zion;

from Jerusalem ³⁹  his voice bellows out. ⁴⁰ 

The heavens ⁴¹  and the earth shake.

But the Lord is a refuge for his people;

he is a stronghold for the citizens ⁴²  of Israel.

3:17 You will be convinced ⁴³  that I the Lord am your God,

dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain.

Jerusalem ⁴⁴  will be holy –

conquering armies ⁴⁵  will no longer pass through it.

3:18 On that day ⁴⁶  the mountains will drip with sweet wine, ⁴⁷ 

and the hills will flow with milk. ⁴⁸ 

All the dry stream beds ⁴⁹  of Judah will flow with water.

A spring will flow out from the temple ⁵⁰  of the Lord,

watering the Valley of Acacia Trees. ⁵¹ 

3:19 Egypt will be desolate

and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,

because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, ⁵² 

in whose land they shed innocent blood.

3:20 But Judah will reside securely forever,

and Jerusalem will be secure ⁵³  from one generation to the next.

3:21 I will avenge ⁵⁴  their blood which I had not previously acquitted.

It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!