Joel 3:5-7
New International Version
5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](A) 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(B) that you might send them far from their homeland.
7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,(C) and I will return(D) on your own heads what you have done.
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Joel 3:5-7
New King James Version
5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My [a]prized possessions.
6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.
7 “Behold, (A)I will raise them
Out of the place to which you have sold them,
And will return your [b]retaliation upon your own head.
Joel 3:5-7
King James Version
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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Joel 3:5-7
English Standard Version
5 For (A)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] 6 You have sold (B)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (C)I will return your payment on your own head.
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