Joel 2:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Afraid

Jonah 4:11

For the pastures

Joel 1:19

Psalm 65:12

Isaiah 51:3

For the tree

Yield

Genesis 4:12

1 Corinthians 3:7

General references

Deuteronomy 11:14

Bible References

Afraid

How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them, - even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed!

Thy righteousness, is like mighty mountains, and, thy just decrees, are a great resounding deep, - Man and beast, thou savest, O Yahweh!

They give drink, to every wild beast of the field, The wild asses do break their thirst.

The eyes of all, for thee, do wait, and, thou, givest them their food in its season.

Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:

Then will he give - Rain for thy seed - wherewith thou shalt sow thy ground and Bread as the increase of thy ground, which shall be fertile and fat, - Thy cattle, in that day, shall feed in broad pasture:

And was not, I, to spare Nineveh, the great city, - wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand human beings, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, besides much cattle?

For the pastures

Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry, - for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze all the trees of the field.

Fruitful are the pastures of the wilderness, And, with exultation, the hills do gird themselves.

For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh, - Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

For the tree

Then will I give your rains in their season, - And the land shall yield her increase, And, the trees of the field, shall yield their fruit.

Earth, will have given her increase, God, our own God, will bless us:

He turneth A Desert, into a pool of water, and, A Parched Land into springs of water;

And I, will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing,- And I will cause the abundant rain to come down in its season abundant rains of blessing, shall they be;

But ye O mountains of Israel Your boughs, shall ye shoot forth, And your fruit, shall ye bear For my people Israel, For they have drawn near to enter.

I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily, - and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon:

And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build waste cities, and inhabit them , and plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof, and lay out gardens, and eat the fruit thereof:

So long were things thus, that, on coming unto a heap of twenty, then was it found to be ten, - on coming unto the vat to draw off fifty measures, then were there found to be twenty.

For, the seed, shall be secure - the vine, shall yield her fruit, and the land, yield her increase, and the heavens, yield their dew, - and I will cause this remnant of the people to inherit all these things.

Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room.

Yield

Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

So that, neither is he that planteth anything, nor, he that watereth, - but, God, who causeth to, grow.

General references

then saith he I will give the rain of your land in it season, the early rain and the latter rain; so shalt thou gather in thy corn, and thy new wine and thine oil;