Joel 3:20

And Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation upon generation.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

In Context

19Egypt 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.

21And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed. And the Lord will remain in Zion.

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:20Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Amos 9:15And I will plant them on their own soil. And I will no longer root them out of their own land, which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

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 →

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