Joel 3:1-8

English Standard Version

The Lord Judges the Nations

3 ^[a] “For behold, ^(A)in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ^2 (B)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And ^(C)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, ³ and ^(D)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

⁴ “What are you to me, ^(E)O Tyre and Sidon, and all ^(F)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, ^(G)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. ⁵ For ^(H)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.^{[b] 6} You have sold ^(I)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. ⁷ Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and ^(J)I will return your payment on your own head. ⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the ^(K)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”