World English Bible
"saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!""
— Luke 19:46, World English 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 will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into 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 on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.