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Travelers overlook dry fields, a distant watercourse, and barren reddish hills.
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Joel 4:19

The violence is answered

Judgment and Refuge in Zion · Joel 4

Story guide: Dry fields and barren red hills contrast with Judah’s promised abundance. The desolate landscape illustrates the judgment announced against Egypt and Edom for violence against the people of Judah.

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19Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

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