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Joel 3:4-8
New English Translation
Joel 3:4-8
New English Translation
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.
Footnotes
- Joel 3:4 tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”
- Joel 3:4 tn Or “districts.”
- 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.
- Joel 3:5 tn Or perhaps, “temples.”
- Joel 3:6 tn Heb “border.”
- 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 3:4-8
New International Version
Joel 3:4-8
New International Version
4 “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) 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](D) 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(E) that you might send them far from their homeland.
7 “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. 8 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)
Footnotes
- Joel 3:5 Or palaces
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