Joel 3:7 - The Scriptures 1998 “See, I am stirring them up out of the place to which you have sold them, and I shall return on your own head what you have done, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, I will stir them up out of the place to which you have sold them and will return your deed [of retaliation] upon your own head. American Standard Version (1901) behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head; Common English Bible But now I am calling them from the places where you have sold them, and I will repay you for your deeds. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕ
“See, these come from far away, and see, those from the north and the west, and these from the land of Sinim.”
but, ‘As יהוה lives who brought up and led the seed of the house of Yisra’ĕ
‘However, all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And those who exploit you shall be exploited, and all who prey upon you I shall make a prey.
“See, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and shall gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together – a great assembly returning here.
‘See, I am gathering them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My displeasure, and in My wrath, and in great rage. And I shall bring them back to this place, and shall let them dwell in safety.
“And I shall take you from among the gentiles, and I shall gather you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into your own land.
“After many days you shall be called up. In the latter years you shall come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Yisra’ĕ
“For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged. And with the same measure you use, it shall be measured to you.
For the judgment is without compassion to the one who has shown no compassion. And compassion boasts over judgment.
He who brings into captivity shall go into captivity, he who kills with the sword has to be killed with the sword. Here is the endurance and the belief of the set-apart ones.
“Because they have shed the blood of set-apart ones and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. For they deserve it.”
“Because true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her whoring. And He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”