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JOEL
- And will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel,
- Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
- 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.
- Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon,
- And all the coasts of Palestine?
- Will ye render me a recompence?
- And if ye recompense me,
- Swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
- Because ye have taken my silver and my gold,
- And have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
- The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians,
- That ye might remove them far from their border.
- Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,
- And will return your recompence upon your own head:
- And I will sell your sons and your daughters
- Into the hand of the children of Judah,
- And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off:
- For the Lord hath spoken it.
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