6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders.
7 “Behold, aI will raise them Out of the place to which you have sold them, And will return your1 retaliation upon your own head.
8 I will sell your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the people of Judah, And they will sell them to the aSabeans, To a people bfar off; For the Lord has spoken.”
9aProclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up.
10aBeat your plowshares into swords And your1 pruning hooks into spears; bLet the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”
11 Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause aYour mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.
12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to ajudge all the surrounding nations.
13aPut in the sickle, for bthe harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the cwinepress is full, The vats overflow— For their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For athe day of the Lordis near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16 The Lord also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; aBut the Lord will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, Dwelling in Zion My aholy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
God Blesses His People
18 And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A afountain shall flow from the house of the Lord And water the Valley of1 Acacias.
I will sell your sons - When Alexander took Tyre, he reduced into slavery all the lower people, and the women. Arrian, lib. ii., says that thirty thousand of them were sold. Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed Sidon, and subdued the other cities of Phoenicia. In all these wars, says Calmet, the Jews, who obeyed the Persians, did not neglect to purchase Phoenician slaves, whom they sold again to the Sabeans, or Arabs.
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