Joel 3:1-8 ▼

1 “For behold, in those [climactic] days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather together all the [Gentile] nations [that were hostile to My people] And bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the LORD has judged). And there I will deal with them and enter into judgment with them there For [their treatment of] My people, My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations, And [because] they have encroached on My land and divided it up.

3 “They have also cast lots for My people, And have traded a boy for a prostitute And have sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

4 Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head.

5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious treasures to your temples and palaces,

6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you may send them far away from their territory,

7 behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them [and return them to their land], and I shall return your action [of retaliation] on your own head.

8 Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for the LORD has spoken.