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


In Context

2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

4 |Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

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

6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment 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 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 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.