Joel 3:20

But Judah will be inhabited forever, 1 and Jerusalem will be inhabited from generation to generation. 1

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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 an abandoned devastation, 1 and Edom will become an abandoned wilderness, 1 because of the violence done to the people of Judah, 1 because they shed innocent blood in their land. 1

21I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged, 1 for Yahweh lives in Zion.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:20Look at Zion, the city of our feasts; 1 your eyes will see Jerusalem as a quiet habitation, a tent that will not be removed, 1 whose stakes will never be pulled up nor will any of its cords be broken. 1

Amos 9:15I will plant them upon their land, 1 and they will never again be uprooted from the land 1 that I have given them,” 1 says Yahweh 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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