For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](A) You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(B) that you might send them far from their homeland.

“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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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My [a]prized possessions.
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.

“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.

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  1. Joel 3:5 Lit. precious good things
  2. Joel 3:7 Or repayment

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

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.

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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For (A)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] You have sold (B)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 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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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces