Joel 3:20

But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

21And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:20Behold the city of Sion, + 33:20 Or, salvation our refuge: your eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

Amos 9:15And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, says the Lord God Almighty.

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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