You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
Joel 3:3 - New International Version (Anglicised) They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink. 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 cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
‘ “Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
This is what the Lord says: ‘For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.
On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
Yet she was taken captive and went into exile. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were put in chains.
cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.