“ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. ”
Fear not, O land - Before, they were bidden to tremble Joel 2:1 , now they are bidden, “fear not;” before, “to turn in weeping, fasting and mourning;” now, “to bound for joy and rejoice;” before...
Joel 2:18 Joel 3:21 . Yahweh's Gracious Response to the Prayer of Intercession. Joel 2:18-27 . The Locusts shall be Destroyed and the Inhabitants of the Land Rejoice in Renewed Prosperity....
Fear not. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6. land . soil. Hebrew. 'adamah. See note on Joel 1:10 . will do great things. Greater than the foe himself ( Joel 2:20 ).
Here he shows that God would have his turn to exalt himself, which the Assyrian presumptuously attempted to do. For God seems for a time to lie still, when he withholds himself, when he puts no...
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Fear not - for the Lord will do great things - The words are repeated from the preceding verse; Jehovah will do great things...
Fear not, O land, &c.— In the former part of this prophesy the land is elegantly represented as mourning, the beasts groaning, and the herds of cattle as greatly distressed; the rivers of water...
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Fear not, O land ... Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field ... Be glad then, ye children of Zion. In an ascending gra...
Repentance followed by Restoration Joel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come ( Joel 2:1-3 ). The advance of the locusts...
Fear not, O land ... — The sentence of the reversal of judgment has gone forth, and all nature — animate and inanimate, rational and irrational — which had been included in the curse is summoned to...
PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT Joel 2:18-32 "THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our Authorized Vers...
the Averting of Judgment Joel 2:12-27 To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should bring us to repen...
Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the visitati...
Here comes in what all along seems to have been intimated, how gracious the Lord would deal with his people. This is ever the case. When the Lord is coming forth to bless, he puts his people to pray....
Fear not, O land ,.... O land of Israel, as the Targum, and the inhabitants of it; neither of the locusts, who had so terrified them, and had done so much mischief, and threatened more; nor of their...
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 G...
Fear not, O land , &c. “In the former part of this prophecy the land is elegantly represented as mourning, the beasts groaning, and the herds of cattle as greatly distressed; the rivers of water...
Promise of Mercy. B. C. 720. 18 Then will the L ORD be jealous for his land, and pity...
Fear not, O land. In Joel 2:10 , the land is said to quake at the approach of this devouring army; now at the approach of mercy it is encouraged, and commanded not to fear; by the same figure an...
Having Accepted His People's Repentance YHWH Promises To Deliver Them from The Plagues Of Locusts By Casting The Locusts Into The Seas On Both Sides Of The Land And That He Will Then Restore The Fru...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 2:21 . Fear not ] as in ch. 1, on account of judgments, but rejoice in the destruction of the hosts. Joel 2:22 .] Verdant pastures and trees laden with fruit shall be...
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...
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. The influence of a repentant soul upon the universe at large I. There is a tendency in the influence of a repentant sou...
EXPOSITION Joel 2:1-29 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings
1 Samuel 12:16 ; 1 Samuel 12:24 ; Deuteronomy 4:32 ; Genesis 15:1 ; Hosea 2:21 ; Isaiah 35:1 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 54:4 ; Isaiah 55:12 ; Jeremiah 30:10 ; Jeremiah 30:9 ;...