And said unto them, It is written, My
house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
thieves.
BSB
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
WEB
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
YLT
and he saith to them, ‘It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.’
F.O.G Original
(13) And He says to them, “It’s written, ‘MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’, but you are making it a ‘cave of bandits’!”
F.O.G
(13) And He says to them, “It’s written, ‘MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’, but you are making it a ‘cave of bandits’!”
F.O.G MSG
¹³He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into ‘a den of thieves’!”ᵉ
Footnotes:
¹³ᵉ Den of thieves: Jesus is quoting from Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11, condemning how the religious leaders had corrupted God’s house of worship into a place of exploitation and dishonest gain.