Catholic Public Domain Version
"For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines. "
— Joel 3:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:”
“Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things, ”
“Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,”
“For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.”
“For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.”
“For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.”
“Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:”
I will gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and have divided my land.
And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink.
Truly, what is there between you and me, Tyre and Sidon and all the distant places of the Philistines? How will you take vengeance on me? And if you were to revenge yourselves against me, I would deliver a repayment to you, quickly and soon, upon your head.
For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines.
And you, sons of Judah and sons of Jerusalem, you have sold the sons of the Greeks, so that you might drive them far from their own territory.
Behold, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head.
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.