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Joel 2:19

Jehovah's favourable answer: He will no longer suffer His people to be deprived by the locusts of the fruits of the earth, nor give occasion for the heathen to reproach them.

will send am sending, the ptcp., as often, of the immediate future. the corn, and the must, and the fresh oil] which they were in need of (Joel 1:10).

and ye shall be satisfied therewith They should have it in abundance.

a reproach among the nations] Joel 2:17 b.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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