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.


In Context

1 For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:

2 I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.

3 And 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.

4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.

5 For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.

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 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 Darby 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, and have drunk it.

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.