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24 The threshing floors will be filled with wheat,
    and the barrels will overflow with wine and olive oil.
25 “I, the Lord, sent my army against you.
    The swarming locusts and the hopping locusts
    and the destroying locusts and the cutting locusts[a] ate everything you had.
But I will pay you back
    for those years of trouble.
26 Then you will have plenty to eat.
    You will be full.
You will praise the name of the Lord your God.
    He has done wonderful things for you.
My people will never again be ashamed.

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  1. Joel 2:25 swarming locusts … cutting locusts See Joel 1:4.

24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow(A) with new wine(B) and oil.

25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(C) have eaten(D)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(E) that I sent among you.
26 You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,(F)
    and you will praise(G) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders(H) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.