Joel Chapter 3 verse 7 Holy Bible
behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
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I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.
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Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
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Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
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Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your repayment on your own head;
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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,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them. Instead of "raise," some prefer "waken," "rouse," or "stir up." The Judaeans would be roused out of the countries into which they had been sold, and restored to their own land, and the measure which had been meted to them meted in turn to their enemies. The deliverance mentioned here may be exemplified, if not realized in part, in the time of Alexander the Great and his successors, when Jewish captives in many lands were set at liberty. Thus Demetrius, in his letter to Jonathan, writes, "I also make free all those Jews who have been made captives and slaves in my kingdom." And will return your recompense upon your own head; better rendered, and will turn back your doing upon your head. A righteous retaliation awaited Philistines and Phoenicians. They in turn would fall into the hands of the Judaeans, and be made prisoners of war, and, as they had done, so should it be done to them.