Joel 3:11-21

11 ¹Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your ²mighty ones.

12 Let the nations be aroused And come up to the ³valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to ⁴judge All the surrounding nations.

13 ⁵Put in the sickle, for the ⁶harvest is ripe. Come, ⁷tread, for the ⁸wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their ⁹wickedness is great.

14 ¹⁰Multitudes, multitudes in the ¹¹valley of decision! For the ¹²day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The ¹³sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.

16 The LORD ¹⁴roars from Zion And ¹⁵utters His voice from Jerusalem, And the ¹⁶heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a ¹⁷refuge for His people And a ¹⁸stronghold to the sons of Israel.

17 Then you will ¹⁹know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My ²⁰holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be ²¹holy, And ²²strangers will pass through it no more.

Judah Will Be Blessed

18 And in that day The ²³mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will ²⁴flow with milk, And all the ²⁵brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a ²⁶spring will go out from the house of the LORD To water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt will become a waste, And Edom will become a desolate wilderness, Because of the ²⁷violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

20 But Judah will be ²⁸inhabited forever And Jerusalem for all generations.

21 And I will ²⁹avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 29

1. Ezekiel 38:15, 16
2. Isaiah 13:3
3. Joel 3:2, 14
4. Psalms 7:6; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:13
5. Revelation 14:14-19
6. Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 6:11
7. Revelation 14:19, 20; Revelation 19:15
8. Isaiah 63:3; Lamentations 1:15
9. Genesis 18:20
10. Isaiah 34:2-8
11. Joel 3:2, 12
12. Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1, 11, 31
13. Joel 2:10, 31
14. Hosea 11:10; Amos 1:2
15. Joel 2:11
16. Ezekiel 38:19; Joel 2:10; Haggai 2:6
17. Psalms 61:3; Isaiah 33:16; Jeremiah 17:17
18. Jeremiah 16:19; Nahum 1:7
19. Joel 2:27
20. Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 56:7; Ezekiel 20:40
21. Isaiah 4:3; Obadiah 17
22. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15
23. Amos 9:13
24. Exodus 3:8
25. Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 35:6
26. Ezekiel 47:1-12
27. Obadiah 10
28. Ezekiel 37:25; Amos 9:15
29. Isaiah 4:4

Footnotes 7

[a]. Or "Lend aid"
[b]. I.e. YHWH judges
[c]. I.e. God's verdict
[d]. I.e. God's verdict
[e]. Lit "freshly pressed out grape juice"
[f]. Or "acacias"
[g]. Lit "of the sons"