10. Make your plows into swords.Make spears from your hooks for trimming trees.Let the weak say,“I am strong.”
11. All of you nations, hurry.Come together in that place.Lord, send your strong soldiersto gather the nations.
12. “Wake up, nations.Come to the Valley Where the Lord Judges.There I will sit to judgeall the nations on every side.
13. Cut them down like grainbecause the harvest is ripe with sin.Come, walk on them as you would walk on grapes,because the winepress is full.The barrels are full of their sins and spilling over.These people are so evil!”
14. There are many peoplein the Valley of Decision.The Lord’s day of judging is nearin the Valley of Decision.
15. The sun and the moon will become dark.The stars will stop shining.
16. The Lord will roar like a lion from Jerusalem.His loud voice will sound like a growl from Jerusalem.And the sky and the earth will shake.But the Lord will be a safe place for his people.He will be a strong place of safety for the people of Israel.
17. “Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.I stay in my holy Mount Zion.Jerusalem will become holy.Strangers will never take over that city again.