2. I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.
3. And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.
4. But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.
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.