Joel 2:18-32

The LORD’s Answer

18 Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his people.
19 The LORD replied[a] to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.
20 “I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things!
21 Do not be afraid, land of Judah; be glad and rejoice. Surely the LORD has done great things!
22 Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.
23 Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm[b] — my great army that I sent among you.
26 You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
27 Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.

The Day of the LORD

28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.[c]

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Cross References 49

  • 1. S Isaiah 26:11; Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 8:2
  • 2. S Psalms 72:13
  • 3. Psalms 4:7
  • 4. S Jeremiah 31:12
  • 5. S Leviticus 26:5
  • 6. S Ezekiel 34:29
  • 7. Jeremiah 1:14-15
  • 8. Zechariah 14:8
  • 9. S Isaiah 34:3
  • 10. S Isaiah 29:22; S Isaiah 54:4; Zephaniah 3:16-17
  • 11. S Psalms 9:2
  • 12. S Psalms 126:3; S Isaiah 25:1
  • 13. S Psalms 65:12
  • 14. S 1 Kings 4:25
  • 15. S Numbers 16:14
  • 16. Joel 1:18-20; Zechariah 8:12
  • 17. Psalms 33:21; Psalms 97:12; Psalms 149:2; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 41:16; Isaiah 66:14; Habakkuk 3:18; Zechariah 10:7
  • 18. S Isaiah 45:8
  • 19. S Job 36:28; S Ezekiel 34:26
  • 20. Psalms 84:6
  • 21. S Leviticus 26:4; S Psalms 135:7; James 5:7
  • 22. Leviticus 26:10; Malachi 3:10
  • 23. S Proverbs 3:10; Joel 3:18; Amos 9:13
  • 24. S Exodus 10:14; Amos 4:9
  • 25. S Deuteronomy 28:39
  • 26. S Joel 1:6
  • 27. S Leviticus 26:5
  • 28. S Leviticus 23:40; S Isaiah 62:9
  • 29. S Psalms 126:3; S Isaiah 25:1
  • 30. S Isaiah 29:22
  • 31. S Exodus 6:7
  • 32. S Exodus 6:2; S Isaiah 44:8; Joel 3:17
  • 33. Isaiah 45:17; Isaiah 54:4; Zephaniah 3:11
  • 34. S Isaiah 11:2; S Isaiah 44:3; Ezekiel 39:29
  • 35. S Numbers 11:17; S Mark 1:8; Galatians 3:14
  • 36. S 1 Samuel 19:20
  • 37. Jeremiah 23:25
  • 38. 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28
  • 39. S Ezekiel 36:27
  • 40. Luke 21:11
  • 41. Mark 13:24-25
  • 42. S ver 2; S Isaiah 22:5; S Jeremiah 4:23; S Matthew 24:29
  • 43. Isaiah 13:9-10; S Joel 1:15; Obadiah 1:15; Malachi 3:2; Malachi 4:1,5
  • 44. S Genesis 4:26; S Psalms 105:1
  • 45. S Psalms 106:8; Acts 2:17-21*; Romans 10:13*
  • 46. S Isaiah 46:13
  • 47. Obadiah 1:17
  • 48. S Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 11:11; Micah 4:7; Micah 7:18; S Romans 9:27
  • 49. Acts 2:39

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or Lord"will be jealous …" / "and take pity …" / 19"The " Lord"will reply"
  • [b]. The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
  • [c]. In Hebrew texts 2:28-32 is numbered 3:1-5.
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