The Book of Joel

I actually found it kind of difficult to find a beautiful line in the poem. Most of it just talked about destruction and starvation and drought. Not until I got to the end was when I found something that sounded beautiful. It's when it talks about Judah being blessed. 

And in that day

The mountains will drip with sweet wine,

And the hills will flow with milk,

And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;

And a spring will go out from the house of the LORD

To water the valley of Shittim.

Egypt will become a waste,

And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,

Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah,

In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Reading the first part aloud sounded so beautiful to me because not only hearing it was beautiful, but imagining this scenery in my head was beautiful. It sounds like a place I would love to spend for the rest of my life. Somewhere with mountains and springs is exactly how I'd love to live. I looked up what Shittim looks like and it's actually not a very appealing place. However it has these trees with Shittim wood and it take the whole look of this dry valley and makes it somewhat beautiful. In the second part of the poem it talks about Egypt becoming waste and other places being desolate and what not. It reminds of the Shittim tree because it's like while everything around it erodes and falls away, these trees stay beautiful and grow. So comparing this to the first part of the poem is kinda of like Judah is the tree and Egypt and Edom is the valley and eroding rocks around the tree. I just thought the use of Shittim fits in perfect with the poem.