Yoel 3:4-7

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 

3:5 For you took my silver and my gold

and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. ⁴ 

3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country. ⁵ 

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

I will repay you for what you have done! ⁶ 

[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.

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “temples.”

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “border.”

[3:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”