1. For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2. Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance--Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.
3. And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.
4. And also, what [are] ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.
5. In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
6. And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.
7. Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,
8. And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.