Joel 3:1-8 ▼

1 “ For behold, in those days and at that time, when I turn back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there over My people and My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations—and they have divided up My land.

3 And for My people they have cast lots, and they have given a boy for a prostitute, and a girl they have sold for wine, that they may drink.

4 And indeed, what are you? to Me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? A recompense are you? rendering against Me, or are you? retaliating against Me? Swiftly and speedily I will return your? recompense upon your? head,

5 because you? took My silver and My gold, and My precious treasures you? have brought in into your? temples!

6 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem you? sold to the sons of Javan, that you might remove them far from their borders.

7 Behold, I am rousing them from the place where there you? have sold them, and I will return your? recompense upon your? head!

8 And I will sell your? sons and your? daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off!” Indeed, YHWH has spoken.