Joel 3:18-19

Judah Will Be Blessed

18 And in that day The ¹mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will ²flow with milk, And all the ³brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a ⁴spring 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 ⁵violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

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. Amos 9:13
• 2. Exodus 3:8
• 3. Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 35:6
• 4. Ezekiel 47:1-12
• 5. Obadiah 10

Footnotes

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