Joel 3:20

Judah will remain inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom a wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land,

21I will avenge their blood which I have not yet avenged. The Lord lives in Zion!

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Cross References

Amos 9:15I will plant them on their own soil, and they will never again be uprooted from their 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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