Joel 3:11-21

11 Come quickly,[a] all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down Your warriors there, Lord.
12 Let the nations be roused and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample [the grapes] because the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is great.[b]
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will cease their shining.
16 The Lord will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem;[c] heaven and earth will shake. But the Lord will be a refuge for His people,[d] a stronghold for the Israelites.

Israel Blessed

17 Then you will know that I am the Lord your God,[e] who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.[f]
18 In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine,[g] and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the Lord's house, watering the Valley of Acacias.[h]
19 Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence [done] to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood.
20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will pardon their bloodguilt,[i] [which] I have not pardoned, for the Lord dwells in Zion.

Joel 3:11-21 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.

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