Joel 3:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot and have sold a girl for juice [of the grape] and have drunk it.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Common English Bible

³ and have cast lots for my people. They have traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, which they drank down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 3:3 Cross References

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

Joel 1:5

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

Obadiah 1:11

On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Revelation 18:13

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.