Joel 2:22
Do not fear, O livestock of the field! For pastures of a wilderness have sprung up, || For the tree has borne its fruit, || Fig tree and vine have given their strength!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21Do not fear, O land! Be glad and rejoice, || For YHWH has exerted Himself to work.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I have given your rains in their season, and the land has given her produce, and the tree of the field gives its fruit;
Psalms 36:6Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, || Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.
Psalms 65:13The meadows are clothed with the flock, || And valleys are covered with grain, || They shout—indeed, they sing!
Psalms 104:11They water every beast of the field, || Wild donkeys break their thirst.
Psalms 107:35He makes a wilderness become a pool of water, || And a dry land become fountains of waters.
Psalms 147:8Who is covering the heavens with clouds, || Who is preparing rain for the earth, || Who is causing grass to spring up [on] mountains,
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 →