Joel 2:26
in Joel 2You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Jehovah your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to shame.
KJV
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
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This verse in Joel 2
Commentary
11 notes on this verseSome expositors understand these promises figuratively, as pointing at gospel-grace, and having their accomplishment in the abundant comforts that are treasured up for believers in the covenant of grace and the satisfaction of soul they have therein.
This site's exposition
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten
on Joel 2:25-27
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten gives the promise its most quoted line, restoration measured not merely in produce but in years, the plague's full span made good. My great army which I sent among you names the locust host as the Lord's own army without contradicting the earlier description, the same instrument used in judgment and then withdrawn in mercy, which the commentators take as settling that whatever else chapter 2 pictures, the Lord's own hand directed it throughout. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel closes the section on covenant presence restored, my people shall never be ashamed repeated at both verse 26 and verse 27 for emphasis.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 22 onwards) Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the Lord has done great things. Do not fear, you animals of the field, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches. Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
5 ), they are now brought in again here singing for the plenty of it; but now all shall have enough, and shall known when they have enough, for God will make their food nourishing and give them to be content with it. These are the mercies promised, and in these God does great things (
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A prediction of the setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah in the world, by the pouring out of the Spirit in the latter days,
Note, The plenty of our creature-comforts is a mercy indeed to us when by them our hearts are enlarged in love and thankfulness to God, who gives us all things richly to enjoy, though we serve him but poorly. When God restores to us plenty after we have known scarcity, as it is doubly pleasant to us, so it should make us the more thankful to God.
4 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century4 voices
IN the case which is particularly mentioned in this chapter, the nation of Israel had very grievously gone astray and therefore they were visited by a very remarkable chastisement. An unusual plague of locusts devoured all the fruit of the field and the people were vexed with a sore famine. The day of the Lord was very terrible and none of them could abide it. The Prophet Joel was commissioned to exhort them to repentance and if, indeed, they listened to his earnest entreaties their later history was bright with mercy. By God's good hand upon them, they were brought to repentance—they wept and cried to God and then the same God who with His left hand had been wondrous in chastisement, was, with His right hand, equally wonderful in blessing and enriching them. He loaded their floors with wheat and made their vats to overflow with wine and oil. He restored unto them the years which the locust had eaten, so that they ate in plenty and were satisfied and praised the name of the Lord, who had dealt wondrously with them. He dealt with then by way of wonders when He smote them and by way of wonders when He returned to them in mercy. It was no unusual thing for the nation of Israel to meet with wonders—they were cradled in prodigies, they grew up amid miracles, they dwelt among marvels—the history of the favored tribes is a long list of miracles.
IN the case which is particularly mentioned in this chapter, the nation of Israel had very grievously gone astray and therefore they were visited by a very remarkable chastisement. An unusual plague of locusts devoured all the fruit of the field and the people were vexed with a sore famine. The day of the Lord was very terrible and none of them could abide it. The Prophet Joel was commissioned to exhort them to repentance and if, indeed, they listened to his earnest entreaties their later history was bright with mercy.
Praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you - In so destroying this formidable enemy; and so miraculously restoring the land to fertility, after so great a devastation.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied - It is of the punishment of God, when people eat and are not satisfied (see Hos 4:10); it is man’s sin, that they are satisfied, and do not to praise God, but the more forget Him Hos 13:6. And so God’s blessings become a curse to him. God promises to restore His gifts, and to give grace withal, that they should own and thank Him. Who hath dealt wondrously with you - “First, wonderfully He afflicted and chastened them, and then gave them wonderful abundance of all things, and very great and miraculous consolation after vehement tribulution, so that they might truly say, This is the change of the Right Hand of the Most High.” And My people shall never be ashamed - o: “So that they persevere in His service. Although he incur temporal confusion, yet this shall not last for ever, but the people of the predestinate, penitent, and patient in adversity, will be saved forever.”
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם | vaakhaltem | and you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| אָכוֹל֙ | ʾakhol | completely <to eat> | H398 → | 810 times |
| וְשָׂב֔וֹעַ | vesavoa' | and being satisfied | H7646 → | |
| וְהִלַּלְתֶּ֗ם | vehilaltem | and you will praise | H1984 → | |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שֵׁ֤ם | shem | [the] name of | H8034 → | |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| עָשָׂ֥ה | ʾasah | he has dealt | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| עִמָּכֶ֖ם | ʾimakhem | with you | H5973 → | |
| לְהַפְלִ֑יא | lehafli' | by doing wonderfully | H6381 → | |
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יֵבֹ֥שׁוּ | yevoshu | they will be ashamed | H954 → | 127 times |
| עַמִּ֖י | ʾami | people my | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| לְעוֹלָֽם׃ | leolam | for ever | H5769 → | 438 times |
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤םand you will eat
vaakhaltemH398 →810 times
אָכוֹל֙completely <to eat>
ʾakholH398 →810 times
וְשָׂב֔וֹעַand being satisfied
vesavoa'H7646 →
וְהִלַּלְתֶּ֗םand you will praise
vehilaltemH1984 →
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שֵׁ֤ם[the] name of
shemH8034 →
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
אֲשֶׁר־who
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
עָשָׂ֥הhe has dealt
ʾasahH6213 →2628 times
עִמָּכֶ֖םwith you
ʾimakhemH5973 →
לְהַפְלִ֑יאby doing wonderfully
lehafli'H6381 →
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
יֵבֹ֥שׁוּthey will be ashamed
yevoshuH954 →127 times
עַמִּ֖יpeople my
ʾamiH5971 →1873 times
לְעוֹלָֽם׃for ever
leolamH5769 →438 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 2:6
For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Romans 10:11
It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Psalms 25:3
Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
- Isaiah 54:4
Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember…
- Joel 2:26–27
You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to…
- 1 Peter 2:6
Through
Romans 10:11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 28:16
So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
- Romans 9:33
as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Isaiah 28:16
Through
Romans 5:5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
it leads to
- Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- Galatians 4:6
Where this verse is studied
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About Joel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1098: “Wonders” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jerome, Commentary on Joel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.