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The Book of Joel, Chapter 3, Verse 5

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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;
King James Version
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
American Standard Version
Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
New English Translation
For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
World English Bible
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
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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.
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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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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
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Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
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Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
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Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
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The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.