Joel 3:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:”

Joel 3:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Joel 3:5 in 6 Bible Translations

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Joel 3:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,”

Joel 3:5 — World English Bible

Joel 3:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things, ”

Joel 3:5 — American Standard Version

Joel 3:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.”

Joel 3:5 — Young's Literal Translation

Joel 3:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things, ”

Joel 3:5 — Darby Translation

Joel 3:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.”

Joel 3:5 — Geneva Bible

Joel 3:5 in Context — Joel 3

3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

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What Does Joel 3:5 Mean?

Joel 3:5 is a verse from the Book of Joel, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Joel chapter 3. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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