Joel 3:5 - Y'all Version Bible Because y’all have taken my silver and my gold, and y’all have carried my finest treasures into y’all’s temples, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried into your temples and palaces My precious treasures, American Standard Version (1901) Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things, Common English Bible You have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples. |
Joash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of YHWH, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of YHWH, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of YHWH and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of YHWH, as YHWH had said.
It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
“Therefore look, the days are coming,” says YHWH, “when they will no more say, ‘As YHWH lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
Listen to fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHWH our God, the vengeance of his temple.
“Y’all must sharpen the arrows, and hold the shields firmly! YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because ʜɪꜱ purpose is to destroy Babylon; for it is the vengeance of YHWH, the vengeance of ʜɪꜱ temple.
Therefore you are to prophesy and tell them, ‘Lord YHWH says: “I am going to open your* graves and cause y’all to come up out of your* graves, my people. Then I will lead y’all into the land of Israel.
But in their place, he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.