Joel 2:1-32

Repentance followed by Restoration

Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance of the locusts into the city is described under the figure of an invading army (Joel 2:4). A message to the penitent is given from Jehovah (Joel 2:12), and a call is issued for a fast of supplication (Joel 2:15). Then follow the announcements that Jehovah has had pity on His people, and that He will remove the locusts (Joel 2:18), and restore abundantly the prosperity of the land (Joel 2:21), and afterward pour out His spirit and grant deliverance in His great day (Joel 2:28).

1. The blown trumpet was a signal of danger (Jeremiah 6:1; Ezekiel 33:3; Amos 3:6). Day of the Lord] cp. Joel 1:15.