Joel 3:21
And I have declared their blood innocent, || [That] I did not declare innocent, || And YHWH is dwelling in Zion!”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
In Context
20And Judah dwells for all time, || And Jerusalem to generation and generation.
Cross References
Ezekiel 36:25And I have sprinkled clean water over you, || And you have been clean; I cleanse you from all your uncleannesses, || And from all your idols.
Ezekiel 48:35[It is] eighteen thousand around, and the renown of the city [is] from the day YHWH [is] there.”
Matthew 27:25and all the people answering said, “His blood [is] on us, and on our children!”
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 →