Joel 3:4

You people of [APO] Tyre and Sidon cities and you people of the Philistia region, I certainly have not [RHQ] done anything to harm you! So if you are trying to get revenge on me, I will very quickly get revenge on you.

Translation for Translators

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 they ◄threw marked stones/cast lots► to determine who would get each of my people. Then they sold some of the Israeli boys and girls to get money to pay for prostitutes and wine to drink.

5You have taken the silver and gold and other valuable things from my temple and put them in your temples.

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Cross References

Judges 11:12Jephthah sent some messengers to the king of the Ammon people-group. They asked the king, “What have we done to make you angry, with the result that your army is coming to fight against the people in our land?”

2 Chronicles 28:17He did that because the army from the Edom people-group had come again and attacked Judah and taken away many of the people of Judah as prisoners.

Isaiah 34:8That will be the time when Yahweh gets revenge for what those people did to the people of Judah.

Jeremiah 47:4It will be the time for all the people of Philistia to be destroyed, and the time to prevent the remaining soldiers from helping the people of Tyre and Sidon cities. I, Yahweh, will get rid of the people of Philistia, those whose ancestors long ago came from Crete island.

Ezekiel 25:12This is also what Yahweh the Lord says: “ You people of Edom are guilty of getting revenge on the people [MTY] of Judah.

Joel 2:10It is as though they cause the earth to shake and the sky to tremble. The sun and the moon become dark and the stars do not shine because there are so many locusts in the sky.

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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