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.


In Context

1 |For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

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

4 |Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures 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 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 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.