5. For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
6. And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.
7. Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
8. And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9. Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
10. Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
11. Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.
12. Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13. Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.
14. Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.