Joel 2:18-27
1599 Geneva Bible
18 Then will the Lord be [a]jealous over his land, and spare his people.
19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen.
20 But I will remove far off from you the [b]Northern army, and I will drive him into a land, barren and desolate with his face toward the [c]East sea, and his end to the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his corruption shall ascend, because he hath exalted himself to do this.
21 Fear not, O land, but be glad, and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness are green for the tree beareth her fruit: the fig tree and the vine do give their force.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he hath given you the rain of [d]righteousness, (A)and he will cause to come down for you the rain, even the first rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the barns shall be full of wheat, and the presses shall abound with wine and oil.
25 And I will render you the years that the grasshopper hath eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm, my great host which I sent among you.
26 So you shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marvelously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27 Ye shall also know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and none other, and my people shall never be ashamed.
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- Joel 2:18 If they repent he showeth that God will preserve and defend them with a most ardent affection.
- Joel 2:20 That is, the Assyrians your enemies.
- Joel 2:20 Called the salt sea, or Persian sea: meaning, that though his army were so great that it filled all from this sea to the sea called Mediterranean, yet he would scatter them.
- Joel 2:23 That is, such as should come by just measure, and as was wont to be sent when God was reconciled with them.
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