Joel 3:7 “Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I wi…”

Joel 3:7

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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:

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;

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;

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne 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.

Young's 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,

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;

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Cross references

“I will”

Jeremiah 23:8 Jeremiah 30:16 Jeremiah 30:10 Zechariah 10:6–10 Isaiah 11:12 Isaiah 49:12

Jeremiah 23:8 · BSB

Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell…

Jeremiah 30:16 · BSB

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

Jeremiah 30:10 · BSB

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will retu…

Zechariah 10:6–10 · BSB

I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer…

Isaiah 11:12 · BSB

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 49:12 · BSB

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan. ”

“and will”

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Joel 3:4 Judges 1:7 1 Samuel 15:33 Esther 7:10 Matthew 7:2

2 Thessalonians 1:6 · BSB

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Joel 3:4 · BSB

Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads…

Judges 1:7 · BSB

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

1 Samuel 15:33 · BSB

But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

Esther 7:10 · BSB

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Matthew 7:2 · BSB

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

8I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

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