Operation Christmas Child – Shoebox Collection Week is Here!
Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Joel 3:17-21

Share

Settings

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 1"So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, 2who dwells in Zion, 3my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and 4strangers shall never again pass through it.
18 "And in that day 5the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and 6all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; 7and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of 8Shittim.
19 9"Egypt shall become a desolation and 10Edom a desolate wilderness, 11for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 12But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 13I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged,[a] 14for the LORD dwells in Zion."
Read Chapter Compare

Joel 3:17-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 3

This chapter, which some make the fourth, contains a prophecy of God's judgments on all the antichristian nations at the time of the Jews' conversion, and the reasons of them, Joe 3:1-3; a threatening of Tyre and Zidon, by way of retaliation, for carrying the riches of the Jews into their temples, and selling their persons to the Greeks, Joe 3:4-8; an alarm to prepare for the battle of Armageddon, or the destruction that shall be made in the valley of Jehoshaphat, Joe 3:9-15; and after that an account of the happy state of the church of Christ, their safety and security, plenty, prosperity, and purity, to the end of the world, Joe 3:16-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. Joel 2:27; [Ezekiel 6:7]
  • 2. ver. 21; [Ezekiel 43:7]
  • 3. Joel 2:1; Psalms 48:1; Isaiah 65:11; Jeremiah 31:23
  • 4. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15; Zechariah 14:21; [Revelation 21:27; Revelation 22:15]
  • 5. Jeremiah 31:12; Amos 9:13
  • 6. Isaiah 30:25
  • 7. Ezekiel 47:1
  • 8. See Numbers 25:1
  • 9. See Isaiah 19:1-17
  • 10. See Isaiah 34:5
  • 11. Obadiah 10
  • 12. Psalms 125:1, 2; Ezekiel 37:25
  • 13. Isaiah 4:4; Ezekiel 36:25, 29
  • 14. [See ver. 17 above]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.