This is the Lord’s message that was given to Joel the son of Pethuel:

Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains – both the early and the late rains as formerly.

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.

You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.