Joel 3:3 - Revised Version 1885

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.

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

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.

Joel 1:5

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

Amos 2:6

Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes:

Obadiah 1:11

In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

Nahum 3:10

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.