A moment in scripture
Joel 3:5
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
The surrounding passage
- 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.
- Joel 3:4
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;
- Joel 3:6
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.
- Joel 3:7
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.