Joel 3:13-21

13 ¹Put in the sickle, for the ²harvest is ripe. Come, ³tread, for the ⁴wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their ⁵wickedness is great.

14 ⁶Multitudes, multitudes in the ⁷valley of decision! For the ⁸day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The ⁹sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.

16 The LORD ¹⁰roars from Zion And ¹¹utters His voice from Jerusalem, And the ¹²heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a ¹³refuge for His people And a ¹⁴stronghold to the sons of Israel.

17 Then you will ¹⁵know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My ¹⁶holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be ¹⁷holy, And ¹⁸strangers will pass through it no more.

Judah Will Be Blessed

18 And in that day The ¹⁹mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will ²⁰flow with milk, And all the ²¹brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a ²²spring 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 ²³violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

20 But Judah will be ²⁴inhabited forever And Jerusalem for all generations.

21 And I will ²⁵avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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Joel 3:13-21 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 25

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

Footnotes 5

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