Joel 3:17-21

Israel Blessed

17 Then you will know that I am the Lord your God,^[a] who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.^[b]

18 In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine,^[c] 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.^[d]

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,^[e] [which] I have not pardoned, 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Ex 6:7; 29:46; Ezk 20:20
• [b] Isa 52:1
• [c] Am 9:13
• [d] Or Shittim
• [e] LXX, Syr read I will avenge their blood