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For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted 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, and have drunk [it].
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Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;
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because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
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and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.
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Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence 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 nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.
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Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.