Yoel 3:5-8
Konteks3:5 For you took my silver and my gold
and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. 1
3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,
removing them far from their own country. 2
3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.
I will repay you for what you have done! 3
3:8 I will sell your sons and daughters to 4 the people of Judah. 5
They will sell them to the Sabeans, 6 a nation far away.
Indeed, the Lord has spoken!
[3:5] 1 tn Or perhaps, “temples.”
[3:7] 3 tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”
[3:8] 4 tn Heb “into the hand of.”
[3:8] 5 tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”
[3:8] 6 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.
