Joel 3:17-21

17 Then you will ¹know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My ²holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be ³holy, And ⁴strangers will pass through it no more.

Judah Will Be Blessed

18 And in that day The ⁵mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will ⁶flow with milk, And all the ⁷brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a ⁸spring 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 ⁹violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

20 But Judah will be ¹⁰inhabited forever And Jerusalem for all generations.

21 And I will ¹¹avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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.

Cross References

• 1. Joel 2:27
• 2. Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 56:7; Ezekiel 20:40
• 3. Isaiah 4:3; Obadiah 17
• 4. Isaiah 52:1; Nahum 1:15
• 5. Amos 9:13
• 6. Exodus 3:8
• 7. Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 35:6
• 8. Ezekiel 47:1-12
• 9. Obadiah 10
• 10. Ezekiel 37:25; Amos 9:15
• 11. Isaiah 4:4

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "freshly pressed out grape juice"
• [b]. Or "acacias"
• [c]. Lit "of the sons"