Joel 2:22

22 Não tenham medo, animais do campo,pois as pastagens estão ficando verdes.As árvores estão dando os seus frutos;a figueira e a videira estão carregadas.

Joel 2:22 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 2:22

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field
Which before groaned, and were perplexed for want of pasture, and cried because of the drought, ( Joel 1:18 Joel 1:20 ) ; perhaps the Gentiles may be here designed, in the mystic and spiritual sense, in distinction from the Jews, the children of Zion, in ( Joel 2:23 ) ; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring;
grass in abundance springs up in them, and covers them, so that there was plenty of food for the beasts of the field: for the tree beareth her fruit;
brings forth and bears fruit suitable to it, agreeable to its nature: the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength;
send forth their branches, put forth their buds, their leaves and fruit. This and the preceding clause cannot be understood as a reason why the beasts of the field should not be afraid, for they relate not to them, but to men; and may serve to confirm the mystic sense of the words, as they may refer to the great fruitfulness produced in the wilderness of the Gentile world, through the preaching of the Gospel in the times of the Messiah; which are more clearly pointed at in ( Joel 2:23 ) ; and which were introduced with great outward peace and plenty; and the Jews ^F6 by the tree bearing her fruit, in the preceding clause, understand barren trees bearing fruit.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 112. 2.

Joel 2:22 In-Context

20 “Levarei o invasor que vem do norte para longe de vocês,empurrando-o para uma terra seca e estéril,a vanguarda para o mar orientale a retaguarda para o mar ocidental.E a sua podridão subirá;o seu mau cheiro se espalhará”.Ele tem feito coisas grandiosas!

21 Não tenha medo, ó terra;regozije-se e alegre-se.O SENHOR tem feito coisas grandiosas!

22 Não tenham medo, animais do campo,pois as pastagens estão ficando verdes.As árvores estão dando os seus frutos;a figueira e a videira estão carregadas.

23 Ó povo de Sião, alegre-see regozije-se no SENHOR, o seu Deus,pois ele dá a vocês as chuvas de outono,conforme a sua justiça.Ele envia a vocês muitas chuvas,as de outono e as de primavera, como antes fazia.

24 As eiras ficarão cheias de trigo;os tonéis transbordarão de vinho novo e de azeite.