Joel 3:11
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8 And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.
9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,
10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
11 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:
12 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;
13 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.
14 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.