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.


In Context

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

2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I 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 an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4 Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head.

5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly 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 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 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.