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Joel 3:8
I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
Joel 3:8 · Bible in Basic English
Joel 3:8 in other translations
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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In context
5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
6 And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:
7 See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;
8 I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
9 Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.
10 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
11 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
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