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And 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.

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;

because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my precious and beautiful things

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They cast lots(A) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(B) to drink.

“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon(C) and all you regions of Philistia?(D) 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.(E) For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces