Joel 2:19
The Lord will reply, saying to his people, “Look! I am sending you grain and new wine and olive oil, and you will be satisfied. You will no longer be a disgrace among the foreign nations.
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18Now the Lord is very protective of his land and takes pity on his people.
Cross References
Ruth 1:6So she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the country of Moab and return home because she had heard that the Lord had blessed his people there with food.
Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and live in them; they will eat the fruit of the vineyards they themselves planted.
Ezekiel 34:29I will make their fields produce remarkable harvests, and they won't suffer famine in their country again or be mocked by others.
Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from everything that makes you unclean. I will make sure you have plenty of grain. I won't send you any famines.
Ezekiel 39:29I won't give up on them anymore, for I will fill the people of Israel with my Spirit, declares the Lord God.”
Joel 1:10The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:19-28
Promise of Mercy. ( b. c. 720.) 18 Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye 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 northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and… Read the whole commentary →