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Joel 3:3-11 American Standard Version (ASV)

3. and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

4. Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

5. Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

6. and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

7. behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

8. and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

9. Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

11. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

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