Joel 3:21 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And I have declared their blood innocent, [That] I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!

English ASV

And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.

English Amplified

And I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held innocent, and avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held innocent, and avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged. ” For the Lord dwells in Zion.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.

English EASY 2024

But I will surely punish those who killed my people. I have not forgiven them. I, the Lord, live in Zion!’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Those people killed my people, so I really will punish them!" The Lord God will live in Zion!

I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."

English God's Word - GW 1995

I will punish those who murder." The Lord lives in Zion!

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

I will pardon their bloodguilt, [which] I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, Indeed, Yahweh dwells in Zion.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged. The Lord dwells in Zion!

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the LORD who dwells in Zion!

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Egypt and Edom have spilled my people's blood. I will punish them for it." The Lord lives in Zion!

English NIV

Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!

English NKJ 1982

For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the Lord dwells in Zion.”

English NLT

I will pardon my people's crimes, which I have not yet pardoned; and I, the LORD, will make my home in Jerusalem with my people."

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For I will avenge the blood of my people; I will not clear their oppressors of guilt. For my home is in Jerusalem with my people.“

English Tyndale 1537

for I will not leave their blood unavenged. And the LORD shall dwell in Sion.(And I will cleanse their blood which I have not cleansed. And the LORD shall dwell in Sion.) [The end of the prophecy of Ioel.]

Joel 3:21 — Compare Translations