Joel 2:20

"The LORD answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations."

Key Reflection

This verse promises that the Lord will provide for His people's material needs—grain, new wine, and oil—with the intent to satisfy them and remove the shame they experience due to their suffering. Through these blessings, God reaffirms His covenant care and desire to restore his people’s honor and well-being.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And I will remove far off from you the northern army -God speaks of the human agent under the figure of the locusts, which perish in the sea; yet so as to show at once, that He did not intend the locust itself, nor to describe the mode in which He should overthrow the human oppressor. He is not speaking of the locust itself, for the Northern is no name for the locust which infested Palestine, since it came from the south; nor would the destruction of the locust be in two opposite seas, since they are uniformly driven by the wind into the sea, upon whose waves they alight and perish, but the wi

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