Joel 2:22

The animals need not fear, for the pastures are green again and the trees bear fruit. God's restoration reaches even the beasts of the field.

Cross-references · 24

• Zech 8:12“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
• Ps 65:12The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
• Ps 147:8–9who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
• Amos 9:14–15I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
• Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
• Isa 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
• Joel 1:18–20How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
• Ps 107:35–38He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
• Isa 30:23–24Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
• Ezek 36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
• Ezek 34:26–27I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
• Hag 2:16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
• Ps 104:11–14They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
• Ezek 36:30I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.
• Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
• Ezek 36:35Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
• Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
• Lev 26:4–5I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
• 1 Cor 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
• Ps 104:27–29All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
• Gen 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
• Mal 3:10–12Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
• Hos 14:5–7I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

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