The Hebrew Prophets

"After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;

and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

I will show wonders in the sky and on earth - blood, fire and columns of smoke.

The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of ADONAI."

At that time, whoever calls on the name of ADONAI will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as ADONAI has promised; among the survivors will be those whom ADONAI has called.

"For then, at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Y'hudah and Yerushalayim,

I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Y'hoshafat [ADONAI judges]. I will enter into judgment there for my people, my heritage Isra'el, whom they scattered among the nations; then they divided my land.

They drew lots for my people, traded boys for whores, sold girls for wine to drink.

"Moreover, what have you against me, Tzor, Tzidon, all parts of P'leshet? Are you paying me back for something I did? If you're paying me back for something I did, then easily, quickly, I'll pay you back right on your own head.

You took my silver and gold. You brought my good treasures into your temples.

The people of Y'hudah and Yerushalayim you sold to the Greeks, so that you could remove them far away from their land.

I will rouse them from the place where you sold them and pay you back right on your own head

I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Y'hudah; and they will sell them to the men of Sh'va, a nation far off; for ADONAI has spoken.

"Proclaim this among the nations: 'Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men approach and attack.'

Hammer your plow-blades into swords and your pruning-knives into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

Hurry, come, you surrounding nations, gather yourselves together!" Bring your warriors down, ADONAI!

"Let the nations be roused and come up to the Valley of Y'hoshafat [ADONAI judges]. For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations."

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, and tread, for the winepress is full. The vats are overflowing, for their wickedness is great.

Such enormous crowds in the Valley of Decision! For the Day of ADONAI is upon us in the Valley of Decision!

The sun and moon have grown black, and the stars have stopped shining.

ADONAI will roar from Tziyon, he will thunder from Yerushalayim, the sky and the earth will shake. But ADONAI will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Isra'el.

"You will know that I am ADONAI your God, living on Tziyon my holy mountain." Then Yerushalayim will be holy, and foreigners will pass through her no more.

Then, when that time comes, the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the streambeds of Y'hudah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of ADONAI to water the Sheetim Valley.

But Egypt will be desolate and Edom a desert waste, because of the violence done to the people of Y'hudah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.

Y'hudah will be inhabited forever, Yerushalayim through all generations.