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Joel 3:7-9
New English Translation
Joel 3:7-9
New English Translation
7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.
I will repay you for what you have done![a]
8 I will sell your sons and daughters to[b] the people of Judah.[c]
They will sell them to the Sabeans,[d] a nation far away.
Indeed, the Lord has spoken.
Judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for a holy war!
Call out the warriors!
Let all these fighting men approach and attack![e]
Footnotes
- Joel 3:7 tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”
- Joel 3:8 tn Heb “into the hand of.”
- Joel 3:8 tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”
- Joel 3:8 sn The Sabeans were Arabian merchants who were influential along the ancient caravan routes that traveled through Arabia. See also Job 1:15; Isa 43:3; 45:14; Ps 72:10.
- Joel 3:9 tn Heb “draw near and go up.”
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