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For lo! in those days, and at that time, - when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

Then will I gather all the nations, and bring them down into the Vale of Jehoshaphat, - and will enter into judgment with them there, concerning my people, and mine inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and, my land, they apportioned;

And, for my people, they cast lots, - and gave a boy for a harlot, and a girl sold they for wine - and drank.

Moreover also, what have, ye, to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the circuit of Palestine? A recompense, are ye paying back unto me? But, though ye should make a recompense unto me, swiftly, speedily, would I return your recompense upon your own head.

Because, my silver and my gold, ye took away, - and, my richly beautiful things, carried ye into your temples;

And, the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem, ye sold to the sons of Greece, - that they might be far removed from their own boundary.

Behold me! rousing them up out of the place whither ye sold them, - So will I bring back your dealing upon your own head.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to Sabeans, unto a nation afar off, - for, Yahweh, hath spoken.