5. For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.
6. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.
7. Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads.
8. I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.
9. Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack!
10. Beat your plows into swordsand your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
11. Come quickly, all you surrounding nations;gather yourselves. Bring down Your warriors there, Lord.
12. Let the nations be rousedand come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,for there I will sit downto judge all the surrounding nations.
13. Swing the sicklebecause the harvest is ripe. Come and trample the grapesbecause the winepress is full; the wine vats overflowbecause the wickedness of the nations is great.