Joel 3:5
King James Version
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Joel 3:5 in context
3And 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.
4Yea, 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;
5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
The Book of Joel — summary, themes & key verses
Return to God — a call to repentance and the promise of the Spirit poured out.
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