1. “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from exile,
2. I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will plead with them there on behalf of My people, even My inheritance, Israel, whom they scattered among the nations and they divided up My land.
3. They cast lots for My people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.”
4. “Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon and all regions of Philistia? Did you render retribution for Me? Even if you were rendering retribution for Me, swiftly, speedily, will I return your retribution back on your own head.
5. For you took My silver and My gold, and you carried My valuable treasures into your temples.
6. “The children of Judah and of Jerusalem you sold to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own territory.
7. “Behold, I am rousing them from the place where you sold them, and I will return your retribution on your own head.
8. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off—for Adonai has spoken.”
9. Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war. Stir up the mighty men. Let the warriors advance and attack.