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


In Context

2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.

4 "Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.

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

6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

7 "See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

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 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 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.