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 the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their food in due season.

Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also many cattle?

For the pastures

O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

For the tree

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

He turns the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry ground into water springs.

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.

But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are soon to come.

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall rebuild the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the winepress to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Yield

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield unto you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall you be in the earth.

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

General references

That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.