⁴“Tyre and Sidon and all of you regions of Philistia! What did you have against me? Were you punishing me for something I did, or were you doing something to hurt me? I will very quickly do to you what you have done to me. ⁵You took my silver and gold, and you put my precious treasures in your temples. ⁶You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks so that you could send them far from their land.

⁷“You sent my people to that faraway place, but I will get them and bring them back, and I will do to you what you have done to them. ⁸I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabean people far away.” The Lord said this.

God Judges the Nations

⁹Announce this among the nations:

Prepare for war!

Wake up the soldiers!

Let all the men of war come near and attack.

¹⁰Make swords from your plows,

and make spears from your hooks for trimming trees.

Let even the weak person say,

“I am a soldier.”

¹¹All of you nations, hurry,

and come together in that place.

Lord, send your soldiers

to gather the nations.

¹²“Wake up, nations,

and come to attack in the Valley Where the Lord Judges.

There I will sit to judge

all the nations on every side.

¹³Swing the cutting tool,

because the harvest is ripe.

Come, walk on them as you would walk on grapes to get their juice,

because the winepress is full

and the barrels are spilling over,

because these people are so evil!”

¹⁴There are huge numbers of people

in the Valley of Decision, ⁿ

because the Lord’s day of judging is near

in the Valley of Decision.

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Footnotes

nValley of Decision This is like the name “Valley Where the Lord Judges” in 3:2 and 3:12.