🌊WEB · Joel 3:4

What does Joel 3:4 mean?

"“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head."

— Joel 3:4 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

4

“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

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Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

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and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

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Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;

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