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.
18. “On that day the mountains will be covered with grapes for sweet wine.The hills will be covered with cows to give milk.And water will flow through all the ravines of Judah.A fountain will flow from the Temple of the Lord.It will give water to the valley of acacia trees.
19. But Egypt will become empty.And Edom will become an empty desert.This is because they were cruel to the people of Judah.They killed innocent people in the land of Judah.
20. But there will always be people living in Judah.And people will live in Jerusalem from now on.