New English Translation

Joel 3:3-11 New English Translation (NET)

3. and they cast lots for my people.They traded a boy for a prostitute;they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

4. Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!

5. For you took my silver and my goldand brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

6. You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,removing them far from their own country.

7. Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.I will repay you for what you have done!

8. I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah.They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.Indeed, the Lord has spoken!

9. Proclaim this among the nations:“Prepare for a holy war!Call out the warriors!Let all these fighting men approach and attack!

10. Beat your plowshares into swords,and your pruning hooks into spears!Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!’

11. Lend your aid and come,all you surrounding nations,and gather yourselves to that place.”Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!