Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.
Luke 19:46 - New Revised Standard Version and he said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Telling them, It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a cave of robbers. [Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11.] American Standard Version (1901) saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers. Common English Bible He said to them, “It’s written,My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hideout for crooks.” Catholic Public Domain Version saying to them: "It is written: 'My house is a house of prayer.' But you have made it into a den of robbers." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves. |
Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.
these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the Lord.
This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. This is the law of the temple.
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.
He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”