Joel 3:5

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Joel 3:5

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Joel 3

³ They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

⁴ Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

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

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

⁷ Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

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