Yoel 2:19

2:19 The Lord responded ¹  to his people,

“Look! I am about to restore your grain ² 

as well as fresh wine and olive oil.

You will be fully satisfied. ³ 

I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.

Yoel 3:4

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

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? ⁵ 

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! ⁶ 

[2:19]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[2:19]  ² tn Heb “Look! I am sending grain to you.” The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to suggest imminent action.

[2:19]  ³ tc One of the Qumran manuscripts (4QXXII^c) inserts “and you will eat” before “and you will be fully satisfied” (the reading of the MT, LXX).

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

[3:4]  ⁵ tn Or “districts.”

[3:4]  ⁶ 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.