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Joel 3:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “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

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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.

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

6 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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From This Chapter

Joel 3:1

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

Joel 3:2

"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,"

Joel 3:3

"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."

Joel 3:5

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

Joel 3:6

"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."

Joel 3:7

"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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