Joël 3:3

Louis Segond

Ils ont tiré mon peuple au sort; Ils ont donné le jeune garçon pour une prostituée, Ils ont vendu la jeune fille pour du vin, et ils ont bu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et qu'ils ont jeté le sort sur mon peuple; et qu'ils ont donné un enfant pour une prostituée, et ont vendu la jeune fille pour du vin, qu'ils ont bu.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ils ont jeté le sort sur mon peuple; ils ont donné le jeune garçon pour une prostituée, et ils ont vendu la jeune fille pour du vin, et ils ont bu.

Darby's French Translation
et elles ont jeté le sort sur mon peuple, et ont donné le jeune garçon pour une prostituée, et ont vendu la jeune fille pour du vin, et elles l'ont bu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:8, 2 Chronicles 28:9, Amos 2:6, Obadiah 1:11, Nahum 3:10, Revelation 18:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:68 - there ye shall Ezekiel 16:33 - give Ezekiel 24:6 - let no Ezekiel 27:13 - the persons Joel 3:6 - have ye Amos 4:1 - Bring Amos 8:6 - General Micah 1:7 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they have cast lots for my people,.... Not only parted their land, but cast lots for their persons, Or played at dice for them, how many captives each soldier should have, and which should be their share and property: ninety seven thousand Jews, Josephus d says, were carried captive by the Romans, who, very probably, cast lots for them, as was usual in such cases; see Nahum 3:10;

and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink; either they gave a boy to be prostituted to natural lusts, in lieu of a whore; and a girl to be debauched for a bottle of wine: or they gave a boy for the price of a whore, as the Targum and Kimchi interpret it; that is, they gave a boy, instead of money, to a whore, to lie with her, as the eunuch was given to Thais; and they gave a girl to the wine merchant for as much wine as they could drink at one sitting. These phrases both express their uncleanness and intemperance, and also the low price and value they set upon their captives; and is applicable enough to the Papists, notorious for the same abominable lusts.

d De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they have cast lots - They treated God’s people as of no account, and delighted in showing their contempt toward them. They chose no one above another, as though all alike were worthless. “They cast lots,” it is said elsewhere, “upon their honorable men” Nahum 3:10, as a special indignity, above captivity or slavery. A “girl” they sold for an evening’s revelry, and a “boy” they exchanged for a night’s debauch.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joel 3:3. Have given a boy for a harlot — To such wretched circumstances were the poor Jews reduced in their captivity, that their children were sold by their oppressors; and both males and females used for the basest purposes. And they were often bartered for the necessaries or luxuries of life. Or this may refer to the issue of the Chaldean war in Judea, where the captives were divided among the victors. And being set in companies, they cast lots for them: and those to whom they fell sold them for various purposes; the boys to be slaves and catamites, the girls to be prostitutes; and in return for them they got wine and such things. I think this is the meaning of the text.