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Oct. 3rd, 2009 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterbobbinJoel 3.16-18
16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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I decided to start reading through some of the minor prophets, because I'm really not very familiar with most of them (I've read Micah quite a bit, but that's about all).
This passage really struck me. I love how, at the end of a book that deals with some terrible things to fall upon the people, there is this promise that troubles will not last forever, and that God will deliver His faithful ones at last.
16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
***
I decided to start reading through some of the minor prophets, because I'm really not very familiar with most of them (I've read Micah quite a bit, but that's about all).
This passage really struck me. I love how, at the end of a book that deals with some terrible things to fall upon the people, there is this promise that troubles will not last forever, and that God will deliver His faithful ones at last.