The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Parallel translations
- WEB The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- KJV And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
- NKJV The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
- NASB The threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.
- NLT The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain, and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil.
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Quick answer
The threshing floors will be full of grain and the vats overflow with wine and oil. God promises abundance to replace the former famine.
Overview
Joel describes the coming plenty: floors heaped with wheat and vats brimming with new wine and oil, a complete reversal of the locusts' devastation. This overflowing provision testifies to God's generous restoration of His repentant people. The abundance points beyond physical harvest to the fullness of blessing God lavishes on those who turn to Him, ultimately in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Amos 9:13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- Mal 3:10Bring 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.
- Joel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- Joel 3:13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
- Lev 26:10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
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