Joel 3:21
Verse 21 of 21. The 3rd of 3 chapters in Joel, in The Minor Prophets.
17So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18And 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.
19Egypt 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.
20But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
Joel 3:21 in the World English Bible
I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.”Read Joel 3:21 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Joel 3:21
This is put last here, as a reason for the rest (v. 21); but we may consider it first, as the ground and foundation of the rest: I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, that is, their bloody heinous sins, especially shedding innocent blood; that filth and guilt they had contracted by sin, which rendered them unfit for communion with God, and made them odious to his holiness and obnoxious to his justice; this they shall be…
Read Matthew Henry on Joel 3:18–21: Judgments and Mercies; Promises to the Church. (b. c. 720.)
Pray Joel 3:21 with someone reading it aloud.
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