How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.