You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par
Joel 3:3 - Easy To Read Version They threw lots {\cf2\super [25]} for my people. They sold a boy to buy a prostitute. {\cf2\super [26]} And they sold a girl to buy wine to drink. They even … Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par
People in Greece, Turkey, and the area around the Black Sea traded with you. They traded slaves and bronze for the things you sold.
Drunks, wake up and cry!\par All of you people that drink wine, cry.\par Why? Because your sweet wine is finished.\par You won’t get another taste of that wine.\par
The Lord says this: “I will definitely punish Israel for the many crimes they did. {\cf2\super [37]} Why? Because they sold good, \{innocent\} people for a little silver. They sold poor people for the price of a pair of shoes.
But Thebes was defeated. Her people were taken away as prisoners to a foreign country. Soldiers beat her small children to death at every street corner. They threw lots {\cf2\super [9]} to see who got to keep the important people as slaves. They put chains on all the important men of Thebes.
Those merchants also sell cinnamon, spice, incense, frankincense, myrrh, wine, and olive oil; fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, and the bodies and souls of men. \{The merchants will cry and say:\}