Joel 3:20

And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.

21And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:20Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken:

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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