joel-2:21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joel 2:1-32

Joel 2:1 . Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2-3. Joel 2:2 . A day of darkness, nigrum esse. The army of locusts obscured the light while flying through the air. More than twenty travellers are agreed on this subject. An army of locusts sometimes is a mile, and sometimes ten miles broad in the air. In a moral view, darkness implies the greatest of national disasters. Joel 2:3 . A fire devoureth before them. The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joel 2:21

Joel 2:21Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.The influence of a repentant soul upon the universe at largeI. There is a tendency in the influence of a repentant soul to bring back to the material universe the forfeited joy it was destined to possess. “Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.” The land is here said to have been in the mend of fear. It had abundant cause for terror. It had been stricken by the retributive hand... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joel 2:21

Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Ver. 21. Fear not, O land ] O red earth, or O tilled land, that hast lain bedridden, as it were under the heavy curse of God, ever since the fall of Adam; and wast never beautiful on cheerful since that time, Genesis 3:17 . Thou that hast lately been under that great and very terrible day of the Lord, Joel 2:11 , who hath made bloody wales upon thy back, and laid thee as a desolate wilderness, Joel 2:3 , to thy... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joel 2:21

Fear: Genesis 15:1, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 54:4, Jeremiah 30:9, Jeremiah 30:10, Zephaniah 3:16, Zephaniah 3:17, Zechariah 8:15 be glad: Psalms 65:12, Psalms 65:13, Psalms 96:11, Psalms 96:12, Psalms 98:8, Isaiah 35:1, Isaiah 44:23, Isaiah 55:12, Hosea 2:21 for: Joel 2:20, Deuteronomy 4:32, 1 Samuel 12:16, 1 Samuel 12:24, Psalms 71:19, Psalms 126:1-Leviticus :, Jeremiah 33:3 Reciprocal: Psalms 65:11 - thy paths Isaiah 30:23 - shall he Joel 2:26 - that Hebrews 6:7 - the earth read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:18-32

PROMISE OF JEHOVAH TO AVERT THE JUDGMENT AND TO BESTOW ABUNDANT BLESSINGS, Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21. Though not expressly stated, it is implied that the prophet’s exhortation was heeded; the solemn assembly was held, the people turned to Jehovah in penitence, and as a result Jehovah altered his purpose. Now he promises to remove the locusts and to restore prosperity, such as has not been known before, until all will know that Jehovah himself dwells in the midst of the people (Joel 2:18-27). The... read more