Joel 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, 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 King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
Ahaz also took the silver and gold 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.
He carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which King Solomon of Israel had made, all this as the Lord had foretold.
On that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, “As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,”
Listen! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! 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, vengeance for his temple.
Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these; a god whom his ancestors did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.
But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.