Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Behold, I will raise them out of the place to which you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
New American Standard Bible
behold, I am going to
King James Version
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Holman Bible
Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them;
International Standard Version
"Look, I will bring them up from where you sold them, I will turn your revenge back upon you,
A Conservative Version
behold, I will stir them up out of the place where ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head.
American Standard Version
behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
Amplified
behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them [and return them to their land], and I shall return your action [of retaliation] on your own head.
Bible in Basic English
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;
Darby Translation
Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold me raising them up from the place where ye sold them there, and I turned back your recompense upon your head:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! I [am] rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!
Modern King James verseion
Behold, I am raising them out of the place where you have sold them, and will turn your reward on your own head.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, therefore, I will raise them out of the place, where ye have sold them, and will reward you even upon your head.
NET Bible
Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!
New Heart English Bible
Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
The Emphasized Bible
Behold me! rousing them up out of the place whither ye sold them, - So will I bring back your dealing upon your own head.
Webster
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
World English Bible
Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,
Themes
Gathering » The lord gathering the nations together
Israel/jews » Israel being attacked
Joel » Denounced » Judgments » Against » enemies of God
Nations » The lord gathering the nations together
Servant » Bond » Bond service threatened, as a national punishment, for the disobedience of israel
sidon » A city » A city on the northern boundary of the canaanites » Prophecies concerning
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Judgment On The Nations
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold unto the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place to which you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: 8 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 has spoken it.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 43:5-6
Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west;
Jeremiah 23:8
But, The LORD lives, who brought up and who led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Joel 3:4
Yea, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coasts of Phlistia? will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head;
2 Thessalonians 1:6
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
Judges 1:7
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath abated.
Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 49:12
Behold, these shall come from afar: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Jeremiah 30:10
Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah 30:16
Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and they that plunder you shall be plunder, and all that prey upon you will I make a prey.
Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the ends of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return there.
Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Ezekiel 34:12-13
As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered on a cloudy and dark day.
Ezekiel 36:24
For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel 38:8
After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always desolate: but they were brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Zechariah 10:6-10
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to restore them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again.
James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.
Revelation 13:10
He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 16:6
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are deserving of it.
Revelation 19:2
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.