Joel 2:19
What does Joel 2:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Joel 2:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Joel 2:19 means
Jehovah declares His intention to restore abundance to His people. He promises to send grain, new wine, and oil, ensuring their satisfaction and removing the reproach they suffered among the nations. This directly addresses the agricultural devastation and national humiliation described earlier in the chapter. This promise of material provision signifies not only a physical restoration but also a spiritual vindication, as God demonstrates His faithfulness and renews their standing as His favored people, a reversal of the judgment.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Let Jehovah answer and say to His people, `Lo, I am sending to you the corn, And the new wine, and the oil, And ye have been satisfied with it, And I make you no more a reproach among nations,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the Lord answered, and said to his people: Behold I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Jehovah will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I send you corn, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Context
Following God's declaration of jealousy and pity in verse 18, this verse provides the first explicit promises of restoration. It directly addresses the agricultural devastation, offering tangible blessings of grain, wine, and oil, demonstrating God's direct and merciful intervention. This sets the stage for further promises regarding the removal of the enemy and complete national restoration.
v.18Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
v.19This passage
v.20but I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it hath done great things.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Malachi 3:10
Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah 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.
- Isaiah 65:21
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
- Haggai 2:16
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.
- Isaiah 62:8
Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:
- Hosea 2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Jeremiah 31:12
And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
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