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For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance -- Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.
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And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.
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And also, what [are] ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.
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In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
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And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.
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Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,
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And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.
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Proclaim ye this among nations, Sanctify a war, stir up the mighty ones, Come nigh, come up, let all the men of war.
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Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I [am] mighty.'