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


In Context

2 Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance — Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.

3 And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

4 And also, what are ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.

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

6 And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.

7 Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your 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 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,