14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For athe day of the Lordis near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16 The Lord also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; aBut the Lord will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, Dwelling in Zion My aholy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
God Blesses His People
18 And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A afountain shall flow from the house of the Lord And water the Valley of1 Acacias.
19 “Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will aacquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the Lord dwells in Zion.”
(Compare Ezekiel 38:18-22). The victories of the Jews over their cruel foe Antiochus, under the Maccabees, may be a reference of this prophecy; but the ultimate reference is to the last Antichrist, of whom Antiochus was the type. Jerusalem being the central seat of the theocracy (Psalms 132:13), it is from thence that Jehovah discomfits the foe.
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