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 animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"

For the pastures

Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

For the tree

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

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

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Yield

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

General references

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