Joel 3:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not." The LORD dwells in Zion!

New Living Translation
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 Standard Version
I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion.”

Berean Study Bible
For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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

NASB 1995
And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

NASB 1977
And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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

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

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

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD, live on Mount Zion. I will punish the guilty and defend the innocent.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will punish those who murder." The LORD lives in Zion!

International Standard Version
I will acquit their bloodguilt that has not yet been acquitted. For the LORD lives in Zion!"

NET Bible
I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the LORD who dwells in Zion!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

New King James Version
For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the LORD dwells in Zion.”

King James 2000 Bible
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.

New Heart English Bible
And I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion."

World English Bible
I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion."

American King James Version
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.

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

A Faithful Version
And I will cleanse their blood which I did not cleanse; and the LORD is dwelling in Zion."

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

English Revised Version
And I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For I will clense their blood, that I haue not clensed, and the Lord will dwell in Zion.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
I wil also clense the blood of them that I haue not clensed, and the Lord dwelleth in Sion.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
for I wil not leaue their bloude vnauenged. And the LORDE shal dwell in Sion.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I have declared their blood innocent, "" [That] I did not declare innocent, "" And YHWH is dwelling in Zion!”

Young's Literal Translation
And I have declared their blood innocent, That I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!

Smith's Literal Translation
And I cleansed their blood I cleansed not: and Jehovah dwelt in Zion.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed. And the Lord will remain in Zion.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I shall avenge their blood and I shall not have pity, and LORD JEHOVAH dwells in Zion.

Lamsa Bible
For I will avenge their blood, and I will not absolve the offenders; and the LORD will dwell in Zion.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as innocent; And the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.
















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