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    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.

“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.
Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
    and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

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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