Joel 3:1-8

The Voice

3 Eternal One: Know that in those days and at that time
        I will bring back Judah and Jerusalem from their captivity.
²     I will assemble all Israel’s enemies in the valley of Jehoshaphat—My judgment.
        I will judge them for how they treated My people, My legacy, Israel—
    Whom they deported and exiled to the nations.
        They divided My land among themselves;
³     They cast lots for My people, selling them into slavery—
        trading boys for prostitutes, selling young girls for a drink of wine.
⁴     Tyre, Sidon, and all the districts of Philistia, what do you have against Me?
        Are you trying to get back at Me?
    Do you pay me back?
        I will turn your wicked actions back upon your heads, fast and sure.
⁵     You have taken wonderful treasures from My house, My silver and gold,
        and you carried them to your own temples and palaces.
⁶     You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks
        to send them far away from their home without hope of return.
⁷     But now, watch! I am going to awaken them to action,
        and in those distant lands where you sold them
    I will turn your wicked actions back upon your heads:
⁸     I will sell your sons and daughters into slavery.
        Now the people of Judah will be your children’s masters.
    Indeed, they will sell your children to the Sabeans,
        who will take them far, far away.