Joel 3:1–8

For, behold, ain those days, and in that time,

aWhen I shall bbring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2  cI will also gather all nations,

And will bring them down dinto the valley of Jehoshaphat,

And ewill plead with them there for my people and for fmy heritage Israel,

Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

3  And gthey have cast lots for my people;

And have given a boy for an harlot,

And sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4  Yea, and what have ye to do with me, hiO Tyre, and iZidon,

And all jthe coasts of ikPalestine?

Will ye render me a recompence?

And if ye recompense me,

lSwiftly and speedily mwill I return your recompence upon your own head;

5  Because nye have taken my silver and my gold,

And have carried into your temples my goodly †pleasant things:

6  nThe children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem ohave ye sold unto †pthe Grecians,

That ye might remove them far from their border.

7  Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,

And mwill return your recompence upon your own head:

8  And qI will sell your sons and your daughters

Into the hand of the children of Judah,

And they shall sell them to rsthe Sabeans, to a people sfar off:

For the Lord hath spoken it.