Joel 3:7

Joel 3:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
• New International Version (NIV)“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Behold, I will raise them Out of the place to which you have sold them, And will return your retaliation upon your own head.

Context of Joel 3:7

5Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, 6and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head. 8I will also sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken. 9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; stir up the warriors! Have all the soldiers come forward, have them come up!

Joel 3:7 word by word

הִנְנִ֣י מְעִירָ֔ם מִן־הַ֨מָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁר־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתָ֖ם שָׁ֑מָּה וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י גְמֻלְכֶ֖ם בְּרֹאשְׁכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• beholdהִנֵּהhinnêh · beholdH2009
• stirעוּר‛ûr · to rouseH5782
• from the placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• whereאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
• whereשָׁםshâm · thereH8033
• you have soldמָכַרmâkar · to sellH4376
• them, and returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• your retributionגְּמוּלgemûl · recompenseH1576
• on your headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218

Cross-references for Joel 3:7

• Isaiah 11:12And He will lift up a flag for the nations And assemble the banished ones of Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
• Isaiah 43:5Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, And gather you from the west.
• Isaiah 49:12Behold, these will come from afar; And behold, these will come from the north and from the west, And these from the land of Aswan.”
• Jeremiah 23:8but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led the descendants of the household of Israel back from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”
• Jeremiah 30:10And do not fear, Jacob My servant,’ declares the Lord, ‘And do not be dismayed, Israel; For behold, I am going to save you from far away, And your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and be at peace, without anxiety, And no one will make him afraid.
• Jeremiah 31:8Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them those who are blind and those who limp, The pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; They will return here as a great assembly.
• Jeremiah 32:37Behold, I am going to gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and have them live in safety.
• Ezekiel 34:12As a shepherd cares for his flock on a day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
• Ezekiel 36:24For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the lands; and I will bring you into your own land.
• Ezekiel 38:8After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual place of ruins; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.
• Zechariah 10:6And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
• Joel 3:4Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution? But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will return your retribution on your head!
• Judges 1:7And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• 1 Samuel 15:33But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.
• Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.
• Matthew 7:2For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

Commentaries on Joel 3:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I will raise them - I shall find means to bring them back from the place whither ye have sold them, and they shall retaliate upon you the injuries they have sustained. It is said that Alexander and his successors set at liberty many Jews that had been sold into Greece. And it is likely that many returned from different lands, on the publication of the edict of Cyrus. - Newcome.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Behold I will raise them - If this promise relates to the same individuals who had been sold, it must have been fulfilled silently; as indeed the return of captives to their own land, unless brought about by some historical event, belongs not to history, but to private life. The prophet, however, is probably predicting God‘s dealings with the nations, not with those individuals. The enslaving of these Hebrews in the time of Joram was but one instance out…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The people of Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia had enslaved Israelites, so the Lord would punish them by selling their sons and daughters into slavery.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. raise them--that is, I will rouse them. Neither sea nor distance will prevent My bringing them back. Alexander, and his successors, restored to liberty many Jews in bondage in Greece [Josephus, Antiquities, 13.5; Wars of the Jews, 3.9,2].Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 3:7

• Joel
• Servant
• Sidon

In the dictionaries

• Flow
• Harvest
• Hope
• Wake
• Eschatology of the Old Testament
• Grecians; Greeks
• Joel (2)
• Sabaeans
• Tyre

Commentaries on Joel 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings