3and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.


In Context

1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have 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, and have drunk it.

4 Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;

5 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

Joel 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:3They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3and 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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