Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joel 3:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse reverses drought through poetic abundance and a life-giving fountain from the LORD's house.
Read It With
- Joel 3:18–21
Read Joel 3:18–21 together. This verse reverses drought through poetic abundance and a life-giving fountain from the LORD's house. Read Joel 3:18–21 as one complete prophetic movement: The prophecy ends with an abundant and watered Judah, desolation for powers charged with violence and innocent blood, enduring Jerusalem, blood no longer left unaccounted, and the LORD dwelling in Zion.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The ending completes the book's reversal—from dried watercourses, failed crops, and reproach to abundance, justice for shed blood, continuity, and presence—while retaining a severe unresolved contrast with judged nations. Within that movement, this verse reverses drought through poetic abundance and a life-giving fountain from the LORD's house.
What Remains True
The book's drought is reversed through poetic abundance and water flowing from the LORD's house into an arid place.
How It Can Shape Life
- Join hope with practical repair of water, food, land, and worship, without advertising guaranteed material excess.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joel 3:18–21 — Renewed Land and Accounted Blood End in the LORD's PresenceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The Valley of Shittim may be an arid symbolic destination or a geographic allusion; its exact location is uncertain.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Joel 3:18–21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew forms, morphology, repeated roots, clause relationships, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Joel.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 3:18–21
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, numbering, historical, Day-of-the-LORD, Spirit, judgment, and restoration notes within the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Joel PDF, printed p. 1704, translation and translator notes on 3:18–21
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