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You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.
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Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them.
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I will let your sons and daughters be sold to the people of Judah; they will sell them to the far-off Sabeans. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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"Make this announcement among the nations: "Prepare for war; call your warriors; gather all your soldiers and march!
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Hammer the points of your plows into swords
1 and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
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Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather in the valley.' " Send down, O Lord, your army to attack them!
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"The nations must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. There I, the Lord, will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
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They are very wicked;
2 cut them down like grain at harvest time; crush them as grapes are crushed in a full wine press until the wine runs over."
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Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the Lord will soon come.
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The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.
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The Lord roars from Mount Zion;
3 his voice thunders from Jerusalem; earth and sky tremble. But he will defend his people.