New American Standard Bible 1995

Joel 3:2-8

2I will 1gather all the nations And bring them down to the 2valley of 3Jehoshaphat. Then I will 4enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have 5scattered among the nations; And they have 6divided up My land.3They have also 7cast lots for My people, 8 9Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink. 4Moreover, what are you to Me, O 10Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of 11Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will 12return your recompense on your head. 5Since you have 13taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious 14treasures to your temples, 6and sold the 15sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the 16Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, 7behold, I am going to 17arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head. 8Also I will 18sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the 19Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.

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Notes

1. Joel 3:2 Is 66:18; Mic 4:12; Zech 14:2 ↩
2. Joel 3:2 Joel 3:12, 14 ↩
3. Joel 3:2 I.e. YHWH judges ↩
4. Joel 3:2 Is 66:16; Jer 25:31; Ezek 38:22 ↩
5. Joel 3:2 Jer 50:17; Ezek 34:6 ↩
6. Joel 3:2 Ezek 35:10; 36:1-5 ↩
7. Joel 3:3 Obad 11; Nah 3:10 ↩
8. Joel 3:3 Lit Given ↩
9. Joel 3:3 Amos 2:6 ↩
10. Joel 3:4 Is 23:1-18; Amos 1:9, 10; Zech 9:2-4; Matt 11:21, 22; Luke 10:13, 14 ↩
11. Joel 3:4 Is 14:29-31; Jer 47:1-7; Ezek 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zech 9:5-7 ↩
12. Joel 3:4 Is 34:8; 59:18 ↩
13. Joel 3:5 2 Kin 12:18; 2 Chr 21:16, 17 ↩
14. Joel 3:5 Lit goodly things ↩
15. Joel 3:6 Ezek 27:13 ↩
16. Joel 3:6 Lit sons of Javan ↩
17. Joel 3:7 Is 43:5, 6; Jer 23:8; Zech 9:13 ↩
18. Joel 3:8 Is 14:2; 60:14 ↩
19. Joel 3:8 Job 1:15; Ps 72:10; Ezek 38:13 ↩

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