Joel 3:18-19

18 “And in that day ¹the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and ²all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; ³and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of ⁴Shittim.

19 ⁵“Egypt shall become a desolation and ⁶Edom a desolate wilderness, ⁷for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Joel 3:18-19 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. 3:18 Jer. 31:12; Amos 9:13
• 2. 3:18 Isa. 30:25
• 3. 3:18 Ezek. 47:1
• 4. 3:18 See Num. 25:1
• 5. 3:19 See Isa. 19:1-17
• 6. 3:19 See Isa. 34:5
• 7. 3:19 Obad. 10