Bible verse
Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
Joel 3:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Joel 3.
3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
11 Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.
KJV
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
ASV
behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
ERV
behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head;
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