Joel 3:3

3:3 and they cast lots for my people.

They traded ¹  a boy for a prostitute;

they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. ² 

Joel 3:6-7

3:6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country. ³ 

3:7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done! ⁴ 

[3:3]  ¹ tn Heb “gave.”

[3:3]  ² sn Heb “and they drank.” Joel vividly refers to a situation where innocent human life has little value; its only worth is its use in somehow satisfying selfish appetites of wicked people who have control over others (cf. Amos 2:6 and 8:6).

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “border.”

[3:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”