5
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
6
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
7
But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.
8
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for the Lord has spoken.
9
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the warriors. Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.