Joel 3:17-21

God will keep his people safe

17 The Lord says,

‘Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.

I live on Zion, my holy hill.

Jerusalem will be a holy place.

Foreign armies will never come into the city again.

18 On that day, the vines on the mountains

will provide plenty of sweet wine.

The cows on the hills will provide plenty of milk.

All the streams in Judah will have plenty of water.

A spring of water will come from the Lord's temple.

It will bring water to the Valley of acacia trees.

19 But Egypt will be an empty place.

Edom will become a wilderness.

They were cruel to the people of Judah.

They killed people there who did not deserve to die.

20 Now Judah will for ever be a place where people can live safely.

Jerusalem will always be a safe city.

21 But I will surely punish those who killed my people.

I have not forgiven them.

I, the Lord, live in Zion!’