Joel 3:4

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre {H6865}, and Zidon {H6721}, and all the coasts {H1552} of Palestine {H6429}? will ye render {H7999} me a recompence {H1576}? and if ye recompense {H1580} me, swiftly {H7031} and speedily {H4120} will I return {H7725} your recompence {H1576} upon your own head {H7218};

"Moreover, what have you against me, Tzor, Tzidon, all parts of P'leshet? Are you paying me back for something I did? If you're paying me back for something I did, then easily, quickly, I'll pay you back right on your own head.

Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 34:8 (4 votes)

    For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

  • Jeremiah 47:4 (4 votes)

    Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

  • Amos 1:6 (4 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom:

  • Amos 1:10 (4 votes)

    But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

  • Isaiah 59:18 (4 votes)

    According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

  • Isaiah 23:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

  • Isaiah 23:2 (3 votes)

    Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.