Devine Scripture

Joel 3:3

Joel chapter 3 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.2I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,

v.3This passage

v.4Yea, 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 2:6

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

  • Revelation 18:13

    and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.

  • Nahum 3:10

    Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Obadiah 1:11

    In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:8

    And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.