^{1 Ref} For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

^{2 Ref} I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,

^{3 Ref} and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

^{4 Ref} Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

^{5 Ref} Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

^{6 Ref} and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

^{7 Ref} behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

^{8 Ref} and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

^{9 Ref} Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

^{10 Ref} Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

^{11 Ref} Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.