King James Version with Apocrypha
"Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:"
— Joel 3:5, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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.”
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.