Yahweh will judge the nations

3 Yahweh says this:

“At that time [DOU], I will enable the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to prosper again.

2 Then in the Valley of Judgment I will gather together the people of all the other nations;

I will judge and punish them

because they scattered my Israeli people

and forced them to go to other countries.

They divided up my land

3 and they ◄threw marked stones/cast lots► to determine who would get each of my people.

Then they sold some of the Israeli boys and girls

to get money to pay for prostitutes and wine to drink.

4 You people of [APO] Tyre and Sidon cities and you people of the Philistia region, I certainly have not [RHQ] done anything to harm you! So if you are trying to get revenge on me, I will very quickly get revenge on you. 5 You have taken the silver and gold and other valuable things from my temple and put them in your temples. 6 You dragged away the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and you took them far away and sold them to people in Greece.

7 But I will cause my people to want to return from the places to which you sold them, and I will do to you what you did to them. 8 Then I will cause some of your sons and your daughters to be sold to the people of Judah! And some of them will be sold to the Sabea people-group, who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”