9  Proclaim this among the nations:

Consecrate for war;²

stir up the mighty men.

Let all the men of war draw near;

let them come up.

10  Beat your ^wplowshares into swords,

and your pruning hooks into spears;

let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11  Hasten and come,

all you surrounding nations,

and gather yourselves there.

Bring down your warriors, O Lord.

12  Let the nations stir themselves up

and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;

for there I will sit to judge

all the surrounding nations.

13  Put in the sickle,

for the ^xharvest is ripe.

Go in, tread,

for the ^ywinepress is full.

The vats overflow,

for their evil is great.

14  Multitudes, multitudes,

in the valley of decision!

For the ^zday of the Lord is near

in the valley of decision.

15  ^aThe sun and the moon are darkened,

and the stars withdraw their shining.

16  ^bThe Lord roars from Zion,

and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

and ^cthe heavens and the earth quake.

But the Lord is a ^drefuge to his people,

a stronghold to the people of Israel.

17  “So ^eyou shall know that I am the Lord your God,

^fwho dwells in Zion, ^gmy holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy,

and ^hstrangers shall never again pass through it.

18  “And in that day

ⁱthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and the hills shall flow with milk,

and all the streambeds of Judah

shall flow with water;

and ^ja fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord

and water the Valley of Shittim.

19  “Egypt shall become a desolation

and Edom a desolate wilderness,

^kfor the violence done to the people of Judah,

because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

20  But ^lJudah shall be inhabited forever,

and Jerusalem to all generations.

21  I will avenge their blood,

blood I have not avenged,³

for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

^f“The Lord ^groars from Zion

and utters his voice from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds mourn,

and the top of ^hCarmel withers.”

“For ^jthree transgressions of Damascus,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,³

because they have threshed Gilead

with threshing sledges of iron.

4  ^kSo I will send a fire upon the house of ^lHazael,

and it shall devour the strongholds of ^mBen-hadad.

5  I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,

and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,⁴

and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;

and the people of Syria shall go into exile to ⁿKir,”

says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of ^pGaza,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they carried into exile a whole people

to deliver them up to Edom.

7  So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,

and it shall devour her strongholds.

8  I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,

and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;

I will turn my hand against Ekron,

and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”

says the Lord God.

“For three transgressions of Tyre,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,

and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

10  So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,

and it shall devour her strongholds.”

“For three transgressions of Edom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

^sbecause he pursued his brother with the sword

and cast off all pity,

and his anger tore ^tperpetually,

and he kept his wrath forever.

12  So I will send a fire upon Teman,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”

“For three transgressions of the Ammonites,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have ^vripped open pregnant women in Gilead,

that they might enlarge their border.

14  So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,

and it shall devour her strongholds,

with shouting on the day of battle,

with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

15  and ^wtheir king shall go into exile,

he and his princes⁵ together,”

says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of Moab,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,¹

because he burned to lime

the bones of the king of Edom.

2  So I will send a fire upon Moab,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,

and Moab shall die amid uproar,

amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

3  I will cut off the ruler from its midst,

and will kill all its princes² with him,”

says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of Judah,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have ^yrejected the law of the Lord,

and have not kept his statutes,

but their lies have led them astray,

those after which their fathers walked.

5  So ^zI will send a fire upon Judah,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

“For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they ^asell the righteous ^bfor silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals—

7  those who ^ctrample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth

and turn aside the way of the afflicted;

a man and his father go in to the same girl,

so that my holy name is profaned;

8  they lay themselves down beside every altar

on garments taken in ^dpledge,

and in the house of their God they drink

the wine of those who have been fined.

9  “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

^ewhose height was like the height of the cedars

and who was as strong as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit above

^fand his roots beneath.

10  Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt

and led you forty years in the wilderness,

to possess the land of the Amorite.

11  And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,

and some of your young men for ^gNazirites.

Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”

declares the Lord.

12  “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,

and commanded the prophets,

saying, ^h‘You shall not prophesy.’

13  “Behold, I will press you down in your place,

as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

14  Flight shall perish from the swift,

and the strong shall not retain his strength,

nor shall the mighty save his life;

15  he who handles the bow shall not stand,

and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself,

nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

16  and he who is stout of heart among the mighty

shall flee away naked in that day,”

declares the Lord.

2  “You only have I known

^jof all the families of the earth;

therefore I will punish you

for all your iniquities.

3  “Do two walk together,

unless they have agreed to meet?

4  Does a lion roar in the forest,

when he has no prey?

Does a young lion cry out from his den,

if he has taken nothing?

5  Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth,

when there is no trap for it?

Does a snare spring up from the ground,

when it has taken nothing?

6  Is a trumpet blown in a city,

and the people are not afraid?

Does disaster come to a city,

unless the Lord has done it?

7  “For the Lord God does nothing

without revealing his secret

to his servants the prophets.

8  ^kThe lion has roared;

who will not fear?

The Lord God has spoken;

^lwho can but prophesy?”

9  Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod

and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,

and say, “Assemble yourselves on the ^mmountains of Samaria,

and see the great tumults within her,

and the oppressed in her midst.”

10  “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,

“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

ⁿ“An adversary shall surround the land

and bring down¹ your defenses from you,

and your strongholds shall be plundered.”

13  “Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord God, the God of hosts,

14  “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,

I will punish the ^paltars of Bethel,

and the horns of the altar shall be cut off

and fall to the ground.

15  I will strike the ^qwinter house along with the summer house,

and the houses of ^rivory shall perish,

and the ^sgreat houses³ shall come to an end,”

declares the Lord.

4  “Hear this word, you cows ^tof Bashan,

who are on the ^umountain of Samaria,

who oppress the ^vpoor, who crush the needy,

who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

2  The Lord God has sworn ^wby his holiness

that, behold, the days are coming upon you,

when they shall take you away with hooks,

even the last of you with ^xfishhooks.

3  And you shall go out through the breaches,

each one straight ahead;

and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”

declares the Lord.

4  “Come to ^yBethel, and transgress;

to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;

bring your sacrifices every morning,

your tithes every three days;

5  offer a ^zsacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,

and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;

for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”

declares the Lord God.

6  “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

and lack of bread in all your places,

yet you did not ^areturn to me,”

declares the Lord.

7  “I also ^bwithheld the rain from you

when there were yet three months to the harvest;

I would send rain on one city,

and send no rain on another city;

one field would have rain,

and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

8  so two or three cities would wander to another city

to drink water, ^cand would not be satisfied;

yet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

9  “I struck you with ^dblight and mildew;

your many gardens and your vineyards,

your fig trees and your olive trees the ^elocust devoured;

yet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

10  “I sent among you a pestilence ^fafter the manner of Egypt;

^gI killed your young men with the sword,

and carried away your horses,¹

and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;

yet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

11  “I overthrew some of you,

^has when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were as a brand² plucked out of the burning;

yet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

12  “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

13  For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,

and declares to man what is his thought,

who ⁱmakes the morning darkness,

and ^jtreads on the heights of the earth—

^kthe Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!