Joel 3:5 - English Standard Version 2016 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. Matoleo zaidiKing 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. |
Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king’s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
“A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.
“Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.
But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.