Joel 3:19
Egypt will be in desolation, and Edom will be a wilderness destroyed, because of what they have unfairly done to the sons of Judah, and because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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In Context
20And Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation upon generation.
Cross References
Isaiah 11:15And the Lord will desolate the tongue of the sea of Egypt. And he will lift up his hand over the river, with the strength of his Spirit; and he will strike it, in its seven streams, so that they may cross through it in their shoes.
Isaiah 34:1O nations and peoples: draw near, and listen, and pay attention! Let the earth and its fullness hear, the entire world and all its offspring.
Jeremiah 49:17And Idumea will be a desert. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied and will hiss over all its wounds.
Lamentations 4:21SIN. Be glad and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the Land of Uz. The cup will also pass to you; you will be inebriated as well as naked.
Ezekiel 35:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Obadiah 1:1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent an envoy to the nations: “Arise, and let us together rise up in battle against him.”
Matthew Henry on Joel 3:19-21
Judgments and Mercies; Promises to the Church. ( b. c. 720.) 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord , and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But… Read the whole commentary →