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17 Then you will (A)know that I am Yahweh your God,
Dwelling in Zion, My (B)holy mountain.
So Jerusalem will be (C)holy,
And (D)strangers will pass through it no more.

Yahweh Dwells in Zion

18 And it will be in that day,
That the (E)mountains will drip with [a]sweet wine,
And the hills will (F)flow with milk,
And all the (G)brooks of Judah will flow with water;
And a (H)spring will go out from the house of Yahweh
To water the valley of [b]Shittim.
19 Egypt will become a desolation,
And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,
Because of the (I)violence [c]done to the sons of Judah,
In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20 But Judah will be (J)inhabited forever
And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 And I will (K)avenge their blood which I have not avenged,
Indeed, Yahweh dwells in Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:18 Lit freshly pressed out grape juice
  2. Joel 3:18 Or acacias
  3. Joel 3:19 Lit of the sons

God’s Blessings on His People

17 “And truly you will know that I am the Lord your God,
    dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
    and no foreigners will invade her again.
18 It will come about at that time
    that the mountains will drip with newly pressed wine,
the hills will flow with milk,
    and the streams of Judah will flow abundantly.
A fountain will spring from the Temple of the Lord,
    to water the Valley of the Acacias.

19 Egypt will be desolate,
    and Edom will be a desert,
because of violence against the people of Judah
    since they shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah will live forever,
    and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will acquit their bloodguilt that has not yet been acquitted.
    For the Lord lives in Zion!”

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