Joel 2:21

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Summary

Joel 2:21

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

Fear

Be glad

For

Bible References

Fear

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

Be glad

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

For

I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.