OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 3:19

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Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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Verse 19. Desolation. Cambyses laid it waste for three years, as Ochus did afterwards.—Edom. Judas and Hican punished them for their former barbarity. Psalms 136:7 and 2 Maccabees 10:16. Ezechiel 25:12. Calmet.

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