Joel 2:23

Be glad, people of Zion, 1 and rejoice in Yahweh your God. 1 For he will give you the autumn rain in due course 1 and bring down showers for you, 1 the autumn rain and the spring rain as before. 1

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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

22Do not fear, beasts of the field, 1 for the pastures of the wilderness will sprout, 1 the trees will bear their fruit, 1 and the fig trees and the vines will yield their full harvest. 1

24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, 1 and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:4then I will give you rain in its season; the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:12Yahweh will open to you his storehouse of the heavens to give the rain for your land at the right time, and to bless all the work of your hand; you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

1 Kings 8:36then listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk. Send rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

Job 37:13He makes all of this happen; sometimes it happens for correction, sometimes for his land, 1 and sometimes as acts of covenant faithfulness. 1

Psalms 32:11Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous; 1 shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

Psalms 95:1Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh; 1 let us sing joyfully to the rock of our salvation. 1

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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