Joel 3:4

And also, what [are] you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, || And all circuits of Philistia? Are you rendering repayment to Me? And if you are giving repayment to Me, || Swiftly, quickly, I return your repayment on your head.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

In Context

3And for My people they cast a lot, || And they give the young man for a harlot, || And have sold the young woman for wine, || That they may drink.

5In that My silver and My gold you took, || And My desirable things that are good, || You have brought into your temples.

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Cross References

Judges 11:12And Jephthah sends messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What [is this] to me and to you, that you have come to me, to fight in my land?”

2 Chronicles 28:17and again the Edomites have come, and strike in Judah, and take captive a captivity.

Isaiah 34:8(For a day of vengeance [is] to YHWH, || A year of recompenses for Zion’s strife),

Jeremiah 47:4Because of the day that has come to spoil all the Philistines, || To cut off every helping remnant from Tyre and from Sidon. For YHWH is spoiling the Philistines, || The remnant of the island of Caphtor.

Ezekiel 25:12Thus said Lord YHWH: Because of the doings of Edom, || In taking vengeance on the house of Judah, || Indeed, they are very guilty, || And they have taken vengeance on them.

Joel 2:10At their face the earth has trembled, || The heavens have shaken, || Sun and moon have been black, || And stars have gathered up their shining.

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:2-9

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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