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(A) You people of Tyre and Sidon[a] and you Philistines, why are you doing this? Are you trying to get even with me? I'll strike back before you know what's happened. You've taken my prized possessions, including my silver and gold, and carried them off to your temples.[b] You have dragged the people of Judah and Jerusalem from their land and sold them to the Greeks.

But I'll make the people of Judah determined to come home, and what happened to them will happen to you. I'll hand over your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans,[c] who live far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!

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Footnotes

  1. 3.4 Tyre and Sidon: Two Phoenician coastal cities.
  2. 3.5 temples: Or “palaces.”
  3. 3.8 Sabeans: The people of Seba, a region in southwest Arabia.

“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon(A) and all you regions of Philistia?(B) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.(C) For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](D) You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(E) that you might send them far from their homeland.

“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,(F) and I will return(G) on your own heads what you have done. I will sell your sons(H) and daughters to the people of Judah,(I) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,(J) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

Israel's Enemies Will Be Punished

(A)(B) This is a message
    from the Lord:
His eyes are on everyone,
especially the tribes
    of Israel.[a]
So he pronounces judgment
against the cities
    of Hadrach and Damascus.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9.1 His … Israel: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 9.1 Hadrach and Damascus: Hadrach was north of both Damascus (the main city of Syria) and Hamath (verse 2).

Judgment on Israel’s Enemies

A prophecy:(A)

The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak
    and will come to rest on Damascus(B)
for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel
    are on the Lord[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:1 Or Damascus. / For the eye of the Lord is on all people, / as well as on the tribes of Israel,

Judgment will also fall
on the nearby city
    of Hamath,
as well as on Tyre and Sidon,[a]
    whose people are clever.

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  1. 9.2 Tyre and Sidon: Phoenician cities.

and on Hamath(A) too, which borders on it,
    and on Tyre(B) and Sidon,(C) though they are very skillful.

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21 (A) You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place here had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11.21 sackcloth … ashes on their heads: This was one way that people showed how sorry they were for their sins.

21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!(A) For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon,(B) they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.(C)

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22 I tell you on the day of judgment the people of Tyre and Sidon will get off easier than you will.

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22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.(A)

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The Unbelieving Towns

(Matthew 11.20-24)

13 (A) You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are also in for trouble! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10.13 dressed in sackcloth … ashes on their heads: This was one way that people showed how sorry they were for their sins.

13 “Woe to you,(A) Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth(B) and ashes.

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14 On the day of judgment the people of Tyre and Sidon will get off easier than you will.

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14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

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