Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
20But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Cross References
Isaiah 11:15And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall + 11:15 q. d. form by striking. strike the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.
Isaiah 34:1Draw near, you⌃ nations; and listen, you⌃ princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
Jeremiah 49:17And all the men, and all the strangers who have set their face toward the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine: and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which I bring upon them.
Lamentations 4:21CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwell in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to you: you shall be drunken, and pour forth.
Ezekiel 35:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Obadiah 1:1The vision of Obdias. Thus says the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.
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 →