Joel 3:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood, fire and pillars of smoke.

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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.

Joel 3:3 Cross References

Job 6:27

Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal and Meshech were your traffickers—they gave lives of people and vessels of bronze for your wares.

Joel 1:5

Awake, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine— on account of sweet wine, for it is denied to your mouth!

Amos 2:6

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For 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 away his wealth, while foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem— you were just like one of them.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she went off to exile among the captives. Even her babes were dashed to pieces at the head of all streets. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her great men were bound with chains.

Revelation 18:13

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