The Nations Judged
1 “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
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They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
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“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
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For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
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You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
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“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
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I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The LORD has spoken.
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Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
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Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”