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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

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 So you shall know that I, the Lord your God,
    dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
    and strangers shall never again pass through it.(A)

18 In that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Wadi Shittim.(B)

19 Egypt shall become a desolation
    and Edom a desolate wilderness,
because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
    in whose land they have shed innocent blood.(C)
20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever
    and Jerusalem to all generations.(D)
21 I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty,[a]
    for the Lord dwells in Zion.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.21 Gk Syr: Heb I will hold innocent their blood that I have not held innocent