Joel 3:1-8

The LORD's Judgment on the Nations

3¹ “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. 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. 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; ⁸ and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
for Yahweh has spoken it.”