Joel 3:7
5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
- KJV
- Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
- WEB
- Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
- ASV
- behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
- DARBY
- Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
- BLB
- Behold, I am rousing them from the place where there you⁺ have sold them, and I will return your⁺ recompense upon your⁺ head!
- ÅB
- Se, jeg kaller dem fra det sted som dere har solgt dem til, og lar deres gjerning falle tilbake på deres eget hode.
- OTB
- "Se, jeg vil vekke dem fra stedene hvor dere solgte dem, og vende deres gjengjeldelse tilbake på deres egne hoder.
- B1930
- Se, jeg kaller dem fra det sted som I har solgt dem til, og lar eders gjerning falle tilbake på eders eget hode.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 43:5–6
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:8
Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
Read in context2 Thessalonians 1:6
After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Read in contextJeremiah 30:16
Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
Read in contextJeremiah 30:10
As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
Read in contextZechariah 10:6–10
I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
Read in contextIsaiah 11:12
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Read in contextRevelation 13:10
“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
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