For I know the plans I have for you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel – all the attackers, the siege works against her, and those who oppress her – will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.
I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. , I will enter into judgement with them there because of my people, my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land.
For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.