Yesaya 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Yoel 3:4-8

3:4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? ² 

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? ³ 

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! ⁴ 

3:5 For you took my silver and my gold

and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. ⁵ 

3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country. ⁶ 

3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done! ⁷ 

3:8 I will sell your sons and daughters to ⁸  the people of Judah. ⁹ 

They will sell them to the Sabeans, ¹⁰  a nation far away.

Indeed, the Lord has spoken!

[14:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

[3:4]  ² tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”

[3:4]  ³ tn Or “districts.”

[3:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “quickly, speedily, I will return your recompense on your head.” This is an idiom for retributive justice and an equitable reversal of situation.

[3:5]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “temples.”

[3:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “border.”

[3:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”

[3:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “into the hand of.”

[3:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”

[3:8]  ¹⁰ sn The Sabeans were Arabian merchants who were influential along the ancient caravan routes that traveled through Arabia. See also Job 1:15; Isa 43:3; 45:14; Ps 72:10.