NET Bible
"saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”"
— Luke 19:46, NET Bible
“Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.”
“saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers. ”
“saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"”
“Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.”
“Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.”
“Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.”
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,
saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,
but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.