Joel 2:26-32

26 You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of Yahweh^[a] your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame.^[b]

27 You will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other.^[c] My people will never again be put to shame.

God's Promise of His Spirit

28 ^[d] After this I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

29 I will even pour out My Spirit on the male and female slaves in those days.^[e]

30 I will display wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and awe-inspiring Day of the Lord comes.

32 Then everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved,^[f] for there will be an escape for those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the Lord promised,^[g] among the survivors the Lord calls.

Joel 2:26-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 2

In this chapter a further account is given of the judgment of the locusts and caterpillars, or of those who are designed by them, Joe 2:1-11; the people of the Jews are called to repentance, humiliation, and fasting, urged from the grace and goodness of God, his jealousy and pity for his people, and the answer of prayer that might he expected from him upon this, even to the removal of the calamity, Joe 2:12-20; a prophecy of good things, both temporal and spiritual, in the times of the Messiah, is delivered out as matter and occasion of great joy, Joe 2:21-27; and another concerning the effusion of the Spirit, which was fulfilled an the day of Pentecost, Joe 2:28-29; and the chapter is concluded with the judgments and desolations that should come upon the land of Judea after this, for their rejection of Christ, though the remnant according to the election of grace should be delivered and saved from the general destruction, Joe 2:30-32.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ps 113:1; 135:1; 148:5,13
• [b]. Isa 45:17
• [c]. Dt 4:35,39; 1 Kg 8:60; Isa 45:5-6
• [d]. Jl 3:1 in Hb
• [e]. Ezk 39:29
• [f]. Ac 2:16-21; Rm 10:13
• [g]. Ob 17