Joel 3:1-8 ▼

1 “For behold, in those days, and in that time, || When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 Then I have gathered all the nations, || And caused them to go down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, || And I have been in judgment with them there, || Concerning My people and My inheritance—Israel, || Whom they scattered among nations, || And My land they have apportioned.

3 And for My people they cast a lot, || And they give the young man for a harlot, || And have sold the young woman for wine, || That they may drink.

4 And also, what [are] you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, || And all circuits of Philistia? Are you rendering repayment to Me? And if you are giving repayment to Me, || Swiftly, quickly, I return your repayment on your head.

5 In that My silver and My gold you took, || And My desirable things that are good, || You have brought into your temples.

6 And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, || You have sold to the sons of Javan, || To put them far off from their border.

7 Behold, I am stirring them up out of the place || To where you have sold them, || And I have turned back your repayment on your head,

8 And have sold your sons and your daughters || Into the hand of the sons of Judah, || And they have sold them to Sabeans, || To a nation far off, for YHWH has spoken.”