I will gather all nations
    and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[a]
There I will put them on trial
    for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
    and divided up my land.
They cast lots for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine to drink.

‘Now what have you against me, 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:2 Jehoshaphat means the Lord judges; also in verse 12.