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


In Context

2 I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;

3 and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

4 Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;

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

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

7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.