Yoel 3:4

3:4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? ¹ 

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? ² 

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! ³ 

Yoel 3:7

3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done! ⁴ 

Yoel 3:20-21

3:20 But Judah will reside securely forever,

and Jerusalem will be secure ⁵  from one generation to the next.

3:21 I will avenge ⁶  their blood which I had not previously acquitted.

It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”

[3:4]  ² tn Or “districts.”

[3:4]  ³ tn Heb “quickly, speedily, I will return your recompense on your head.” This is an idiom for retributive justice and an equitable reversal of situation.

[3:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”

[3:20]  ⁵ tn The phrase “will be secure” does not appear in the Hebrew, but are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness.

[3:21]  ⁶ tc The present translation follows the reading וְנִקַּמְתִּי (vÿniqqamti, “I will avenge”) rather than וְנִקֵּתִי (vÿniqqeti, “I will acquit”) of the MT.