Joel 2:25

Abundance in place of the deprivations of Joel 1:4.

And I The discourse of the prophet passing imperceptibly, as often, into that of Jehovah: cf. e.g. Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 60:7; Isaiah 60:21.

the years The expression shews that the visitation of locusts, spoken of in ch. 1, was not confined to a single year.

the locust …, the cankerworm, the caterpillar, and the palmerworm the swarmer …, the lapper, the finisher, and the shearer: see on Joel 1:4. Army, as Joel 2:11.