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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מִצְרַ֙יִם֙mitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714 →
לִשְׁמָמָ֣הlish.ma.Mah<into> a desolationH8077 →
תִֽהְיֶ֔הtih.Yehit will becomeH1961 →
וֶאֱד֕וֹםve.'e.Domand EdomH123 →
לְמִדְבַּ֥רle.mid.Bar<into> a wilderness ofH4057 →
שְׁמָמָ֖הshe.ma.MahdesolationH8077 →
תִּֽהְיֶ֑הtih.Yehit will becomeH1961 →
מֵֽחֲמַס֙me.cha.Masfrom [the] violence ofH2555 →
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121 →
יְהוּדָ֔הye.hu.DahJudahH3063 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whomH834 →
שָׁפְכ֥וּsha.fe.Khuthey shedH8210 →
דָם־dom-bloodH1818 →
נָקִ֖יאna.Ki'innocentH5355 →
בְּאַרְצָֽם׃be.'ar.Tzamin land theirH776 →

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Amos 1:11This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.Isaiah 19:1–15This 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 11:14They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.Isaiah 19:1This 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.Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”Isaiah 21:11This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”Zechariah 14:18–19And 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.Jeremiah 51:35May 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.Isaiah 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.Malachi 1:3–4but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”Lamentations 4:21So 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.Isaiah 63:1–6Who 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.”Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”Obadiah 1:10–16Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.Obadiah 1:1This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—Ezekiel 25:1–17Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Isaiah 34:1–17Come 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.

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