Joel 2:21

The land is told not to fear but to rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things. Joy replaces the earlier mourning of the land.

Cross-references · 20

• Zeph 3:16–17In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Isa 54:4“Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
• Ps 126:1–3A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
• Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
• 1 Sam 12:16“Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
• 1 Sam 12:24Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
• Isa 35:1The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
• Jer 30:9–10but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
• Deut 4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
• Zech 8:15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
• Joel 2:20But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
• Ps 65:12–13The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
• Ps 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
• Gen 15:1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
• Hos 2:21It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
• Isa 44:23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
• Ps 96:11–12Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
• Isa 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
• Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

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