Joel 3:7
Good News Translation
Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them.

New Revised Standard Version
But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.

Contemporary English Version
But I'll make the people of Judah determined to come home, and what happened to them will happen to you.

New American Bible
Look! I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own head.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.

I will.

Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 43:5,6 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. . . .

Isaiah 49:12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

Jeremiah 23:8 But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.

Jeremiah 30:10,16 Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a country afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and there shall be none whom he may fear: . . .

Jeremiah 31:8 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither.

Jeremiah 32:37 Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.

Ezekiel 34:12,13 As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. . . .

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it.

Zechariah 10:6-10 And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on them: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. . . .

and will.

Joel 3:4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Revelation 13:10 He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Context
The LORD Judges the Nations
6And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country. 7Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.8And I will sell your sons, and your daughters, by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.…
Cross References
Isaiah 43:5
Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.

Isaiah 43:6
I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 66:6
A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

Jeremiah 23:8
But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.

Zechariah 9:13
Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty.

Joel 3:6
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