Joel 2:23
And you sons of Zion, || Be glad and rejoice in your God YHWH, || For He has given to you the Teacher for righteousness, || And causes a shower to come down to you, || Early rain and spring rain [as] in the beginning.
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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;
Deuteronomy 28:12YHWH opens his good treasure to you—the heavens—to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand, and you have lent to many nations, and you do not borrow.
1 Kings 8:36then You hear in the heavens, and have forgiven the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel, for You direct them [to] the good way in which they go, and have given rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for inheritance.
Job 37:13Whether for a rod, or for His land, || Or for kindness—He causes it to come.
Psalms 32:11Be glad in YHWH, and rejoice, you righteous, || And sing, all you upright of heart!
Psalms 95:1Come, we sing to YHWH, || We shout to the rock of our salvation.
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 →