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Joel 3:5

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Joel 3:5 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

    ASV

  • And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

    BBE

  • because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

    DBY

  • Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

    WEB

  • In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

    YLT

  • Because all of you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

    ENG

  • And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

    WBT

  • For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

    BSB

In context

3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4Yea, 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;

5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

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