Joel 2:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

None need be discouraged, as if it were too late to seek and hope for mercy; God will pardon the truly penitent, and deliver them from eternal miseries, and it is possible he may deliver from present temporal calamities also. If you obtain not all you would, you shall obtain enough to show that it was worth your while to seek God. Return: God doth not locally move from one place to another, but when he withholds his blessings, the fruits of his favour, he is said to withdraw himself; so when he gives out his blessings, he is said to return. Repent: see Joel 2:13. Leave a blessing behind him; cause the locusts to depart before they have eaten up all that is in the land. A meat-offering and a drink-offering: see Joel 1:9.