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 of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
• Ps 65:12The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
• Ps 147:8–9who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
• Amos 9:14–15I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
• Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
• Isa 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Joel 1:18–20How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
• Ps 107:35–38He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
• Isa 30:23–24He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
• Ezek 36:8But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
• Ezek 34:26–27I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Hag 2:16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
• Ps 104:11–14They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
• Ezek 36:30I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
• Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
• Ezek 36:35They shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
• Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
• Lev 26:4–5then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
• Ps 104:27–29These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.
• Gen 4:12From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
• Mal 3:10–12Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
• Hos 14:5–7I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

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