Zechariah 2
Zechariah chapter 2 from the Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision
2 For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem: 3 I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land. 4 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink. 5 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head. 6 For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples. 7 And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country. 8 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads. 9 And I will sell your sons, and your daughters, by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it. 10 Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, raise up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up. 11 Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong. 12 Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down. 13 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.