Joel 3:1-8

The Nations Judged 1In Hebrew texts 3:1-21 is numbered 4:1-21. “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat means the Lord judges; also in verse 12. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

3They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink. 4“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? 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. 5For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. Or palaces

6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, 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, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The LORD has spoken.