And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Ver. 25. And I will restore to you the years, &c.] I will so make up your former losses, that there shall remain no sign nor sense thereof. See a like promise Zechariah 10:6, "They shall be as though I had not cast them off," See Trapp on " Zec 10:6 " See also Isaiah 60:10 .
My great army] sc. the locusts, see above, Joel 2:2; Joel 2:5; Joel 2:11. God is Lord of Hosts, and (as the Rabbis well observe) he hath the upper and lower troops, as his horse and foot ready prest.