The LORD Judges the Nations
Joel 3:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
- KJV
- Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
- WEB
- Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
- ASV
- behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
- LSV
- Behold, I am stirring them up out of the place || To where you have sold them, || And I have turned back your repayment on your head,
- YLT
- Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,
- DBY
- Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
- DRC
- Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
- GNV
- Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne head,
- JPS4:7
- behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your retribution upon your own head;
- LXXE4:7
- Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.
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Original-language editions
- WLC4:7
- הִנְנִ֣י מְעִירָ֔ם מִן־הַ֨מָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁר־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתָ֖ם שָׁ֑מָּה וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י גְמֻלְכֶ֖ם בְּרֹאשְׁכֶֽם׃KJV:Joel.3.7
- LXX-Br4:7
- Καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξεγείρω αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ τόπου οὗ ἀπέδοσθε αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἀνταποδώσω τὸ ἀνταπόδομα ὑμῶν εἰς κεφαλὰς ὑμῶν,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 43:5–6Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar,…
- Jeremiah 23:8Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will…
- Jeremiah 30:16Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
- Jeremiah 30:10As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will…
- Zechariah 10:6–10I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will…
- Ezekiel 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They…
- Revelation 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
- Judges 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- 1 Samuel 15:33But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
- Jeremiah 32:37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
- Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- Joel 3:4Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your…
- Jeremiah 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!
- Revelation 19:2For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
- Ezekiel 36:24For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 4:7 in some Bibles
- 3:7 in most Bibles