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


In Context

2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

3 And 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.

4 Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own head;

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

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

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your recompense on your own head:

Joel 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.