Joel 3:19 “Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of th…”

Joel 3:19

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

American Standard Version

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Geneva Bible 1599

Egypt shalbe waste, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernesse, for the iniuries of the childre of Iudah, because they haue shed innocent blood in their land.

Darby Translation

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Young's Literal Translation

Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence [to] sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

Bible in Basic English

Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

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Cross references

“Egypt”

Isaiah 19:1–15 Isaiah 11:15 Zechariah 10:10 Zechariah 14:18 Zechariah 14:19

Isaiah 19:1–15 · BSB

This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Isaiah 11:15 · BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Zechariah 10:10 · BSB

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.

Zechariah 14:18 · BSB

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:19 · BSB

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

“Edom”

Isaiah 34:1–17 Isaiah 63:1–6 Jeremiah 49:17 Lamentations 4:21 Ezekiel 25:1–17 Ezekiel 35:1–15

Isaiah 34:1–17 · BSB

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Isaiah 63:1–6 · BSB

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

Jeremiah 49:17 · BSB

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Lamentations 4:21 · BSB

So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

Ezekiel 25:1–17 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 35:1–15 · BSB

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“for”

Jeremiah 51:35 Psalm 137:7 Obadiah 1:10–16 2 Thessalonians 1:6

Jeremiah 51:35 · BSB

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

Psalm 137:7 · BSB

Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Obadiah 1:10–16 · BSB

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 · BSB

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

20But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

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