Joel 3:1-8

Lexham English Bible

Yahweh’s Judgment on the Nations

3 ^[a] For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return^[b] the fortunes 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 argue a case against them^[c] there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land that they have divided. ³ For my people they cast lots,^[d] and they traded^[e] the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it.

⁴ What are you to me, O Tyre and O Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you are recompensing me, I will return swiftly and quickly what you deserve on your head! ⁵ For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples. ⁶ And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border. ⁷ Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head! ⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans and to a nation far away, for Yahweh has spoken.