Joel 3:20

Judah will be lived in forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence they did against Judah, for in their land they shed innocent blood.

21Will I pardon and leave unpunished the shedding of innocent blood? The Lord lives in Zion!”

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:20On the contrary, you'll see Zion as a festival city. You will view Jerusalem as a quiet and peaceful place. It will be like a tent that's never taken down, whose tent-pegs are never pulled up, whose guy ropes never snap.

Amos 9:15I will plant them in their own land, and they shall never be uprooted again from the land I have given them, declares 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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