American Standard Version
"and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. "
— Joel 3:3, American Standard Version
“And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”
“and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.”
“and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.”
“And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.”
“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.”
“And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.
Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;