Joel 2:23

You people of Jerusalem, rejoice about what Yahweh, your God, will be doing for you. He will send abundant rain at the ◄right time/time when it is needed►— ◄in the spring/early in the year► and ◄in the autumn/late in the year► like he did previously.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

In Context

22And the wild animals should not be afraid, because the meadows will soon become green again; the fig trees and other trees will be full of fruit, and the grapevines will be covered with grapes.

24The ground where you thresh the grain will be covered with grain, and your vats where you store grape juice and olive oil will be full.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:4I will send rain for you at the proper/right times, in order that crops will grow on your land and there will be plenty of fruit on your trees.

Deuteronomy 28:12“When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you will be able to lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow money from them.

1 Kings 8:36listen to them from heaven, and forgive your Israeli people for the sins that they have committed. Teach them the right way to conduct their lives. Then send rain on this land that you have given to your people to belong to them permanently.

Job 37:13Sometimes God sends rain to punish us, and sometimes he sends rain to show us that he acts kindly toward us.

Psalms 32:11So, all you righteous people, rejoice about what Yahweh has done for you; you whose ◄inner beings/lives► are pure, be glad and shout joyfully!

Psalms 95:1Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!

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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