Joel 3:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִקֵּ֖יתִי דָּמָ֣ם לֹֽא־נִקֵּ֑יתִי וַֽיהוָ֖ה שֹׁכֵ֥ן בְּצִיּֽוֹן

Transliteration

And-niqqêṯî dāmām not-niqqêṯî and-YHWH šōḵēn in-ṣiyyôn

Grammar Details

*wəniqqêṯî*: conjunction + piel perfect 1st person singular - and I will avenge/clear
*dāmām*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their blood
*lōʾ-niqqêṯî*: negative particle + piel perfect 1st person singular - I had not avenged/cleared
*waYHWH*: conjunction + proper noun - and the LORD
*šōḵēn*: qal participle masculine singular - dwelling
*bəṣiyyôn*: preposition + proper noun - in Zion

Word Meanings

*niqqêṯî*: avenge/clear/hold innocent
*dāmām*: their blood/their bloodshed
*šōḵēn*: dwelling/inhabiting/residing

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Referenced Verses

Isa 4:4 : 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Ezek 36:25 : 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ezek 36:29 : 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Ezek 48:35 : 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

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Joel 3:19-20
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19Egypt 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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3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
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16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
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3Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
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21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
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16When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
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