Joe 3:4-8 | NET2full | STEP | Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon ? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia ? If you are , I will very quickly repay you for what you have done !

‏ Joel 3:4-8

4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? ^{▼▼tn Heb “What [are] you [doing] to me, O Tyre and Sidon?”}
Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? ^{▼▼tn Or “districts.”}
If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! ^{▼▼tn Heb “quickly, speedily, I will return your recompense on your head.” This is an idiom for retributive justice and an equitable reversal of situation.}
5 For you took my silver and my gold
and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. ^{▼▼tn Or perhaps, “temples.”}
6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,
removing them far from their own country. ^{▼▼tn Heb “border.”}
7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.
I will repay you for what you have done! ^{▼▼tn Heb “I will return your recompense on your head.”}
8 I will sell your sons and daughters to ^{▼▼tn Heb “into the hand of.”} the people of Judah. ^{▼▼tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”}
They will sell them to the Sabeans, ^{▼▼sn The Sabeans were Arabian merchants who were influential along the ancient caravan routes that traveled through Arabia. See also Job 1:15; Isa 43:3; 45:14; Ps 72:10.} a nation far away.”
Indeed, the Lord has spoken.