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


In Context

1 "In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

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

4 "Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.

5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to 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 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 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.