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Joel 3:4-8
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4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?[a]
Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia?[b]
If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done![c]
5 For you took my silver and my gold
and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.[d]
6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,
removing them far from their own country.[e]
7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.
I will repay you for what you have done![f]
8 I will sell your sons and daughters to[g] the people of Judah.[h]
They will sell them to the Sabeans,[i] a nation far away.
Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:4 tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”
  2. Joel 3:4 tn Or “districts.”
  3. Joel 3:4 tn Heb “quickly, speedily, I will return your recompense on your head.” This is an idiom for retributive justice and an equitable reversal of situation.
  4. Joel 3:5 tn Or perhaps, “temples.”
  5. Joel 3:6 tn Heb “border.”
  6. Joel 3:7 tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”
  7. Joel 3:8 tn Heb “into the hand of.”
  8. Joel 3:8 tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”
  9. 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.
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