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For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.
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And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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Yes, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;
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Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
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The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
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Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
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Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
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Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.