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


In Context

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

3 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.

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

6 And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.

7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.

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 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.