The Lord Plans to Judge the Nations

3:1 (4:1)1 For look! In those2 days and at that time

I will return the exiles3 to Judah and Jerusalem.4

3:2 Then I will gather all the nations,

and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.5

I will enter into judgment6 against them there

concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance,7

whom they scattered among the nations.

They partitioned my land,

3:3 and they cast lots for my people.

They traded8 a boy for a prostitute;

they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.9

3:4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?10

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia?11

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!12

3:5 For you took my silver and my gold

and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.13

3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country.14

3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done!15

3:8 I will sell your sons and daughters to16 the people of Judah.17

They will sell them to the Sabeans,18 a nation far away.

Indeed, the Lord has spoken!