Joel 2:19

When the people prayed, Yahweh answered and said, “I will give you plenty of grain and wine and olive oil, and you will be satisfied. And I will no longer allow other nations to insult you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

18But Yahweh showed that he was concerned about his people and that he would act mercifully toward them.

20Another army of locusts will come from the north to attack you, but I will force them to continue past Jerusalem into the desert. Some will go into the Dead Sea in the east and some will go into the Mediterranean Sea in the west. There they will all die, and their bodies will stink.” Yahweh does great things!

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Cross References

Ruth 1:6One day while Naomi was in Moab, she heard someone say that Yahweh had helped his people in Israel and that now there was plenty of food to eat. So she prepared to return to Bethlehem.

Isaiah 65:21My people will build houses and then live in them. They will plant vineyards and then eat grapes from those vineyards.

Ezekiel 34:29I will cause their land to be famous/well-known for its good crops. There will no longer be famines in the land, and people in other nations will no longer ridicule them.

Ezekiel 36:29I will free you from all your disgraceful behavior. I will cause your grain to be plentiful, and I will not send a famine to you again.

Ezekiel 39:29I will no longer turn away from them; I will pour out my Spirit on the Israeli people. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”

Joel 1:10The crops in the fields have been ruined; it is as though [PRS] the ground is mourning. The grain has been destroyed, there are no grapes to make wine, and there is no more olive oil.

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 →

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