Joel 3:1-8

Good News Translation

God Will Judge the Nations

3 The Lord says,
“At that time I will restore
    the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem.
²I will gather all the nations
    and bring them to the Valley of Judgment.
There I will judge them
    for all they have done to my people.
They have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries
    and divided Israel, my land.
³They threw dice to decide
    who would get the captives.
They sold boys and girls into slavery
    to pay for prostitutes and wine.

⁴^(A)“What are you trying to do to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all of Philistia? Are you trying to pay me back for something? If you are, I will quickly pay you back! ⁵You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples. ⁶You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks. ⁷Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them. ⁸I will let your sons and daughters be sold to the people of Judah; they will sell them to the far-off Sabeans. I, the Lord, have spoken.