The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. > Joel 1:2 Reflection Joel 1:1 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing […]
Joel
The book of Joel is a prophetic message that calls God’s people to repentance, highlights the coming “day of the Lord,” and offers hope through God’s restoration. Joel begins by describing a devastating locust plague and other calamities as a warning of judgment, urging the people to turn back to God with fasting, prayer, and sincere hearts. Despite the warnings, the book promises renewal, blessing, and the outpouring of God’s Spirit on all people.
Joel emphasizes God’s justice, mercy, and sovereignty. He calls believers to recognize their dependence on Him, to live in humility and obedience, and to trust in His power to restore and redeem. The prophecy also looks forward to the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises in the coming Messiah and the Spirit’s work in the hearts of His people.
This book encourages reflection, repentance, and renewed faithfulness. Joel reminds believers that God’s judgment serves both correction and purpose, while His mercy brings hope, restoration, and spiritual renewal.
Explore the book of Joel to understand God’s call to repentance, witness His justice and mercy, and experience the hope of restoration through His Spirit.
Joel 1:10
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. < Joel 1:9 | > Joel 1:11 Reflection Joel 1:10 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This […]
Joel 1:11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. < Joel 1:10 | > Joel 1:12 Reflection Joel 1:11 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, […]
Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. < Joel 1:11 | > Joel 1:13 Reflection Joel 1:12 sits within Joel, prophetic warning […]
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. < Joel 1:12 | > Joel 1:14 Reflection Joel 1:13 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and […]
Joel 1:14
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, < Joel 1:13 | > Joel 1:15 Reflection Joel 1:14 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, […]
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. < Joel 1:14 | > Joel 1:16 Reflection Joel 1:15 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the […]
Joel 1:16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? < Joel 1:15 | > Joel 1:17 Reflection Joel 1:16 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may […]
Joel 1:17
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. < Joel 1:16 | > Joel 1:18 Reflection Joel 1:17 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. […]
Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. < Joel 1:17 | > Joel 1:19 Reflection Joel 1:18 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and […]
Joel 1:19
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. < Joel 1:18 | > Joel 1:20 Reflection Joel 1:19 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of […]
Joel 1:2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? < Joel 1:1 | > Joel 1:3 Reflection Joel 1:2 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of […]
Joel 1:20
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. < Joel 1:19 | > Joel 2:1 Reflection Joel 1:20 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the […]
Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. < Joel 1:2 | > Joel 1:4 Reflection Joel 1:3 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may be […]
Joel 1:4
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. < Joel 1:3 | > Joel 1:5 Reflection Joel 1:4 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to […]
Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. < Joel 1:4 | > Joel 1:6 Reflection Joel 1:5 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, […]
Joel 1:6
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. < Joel 1:5 | > Joel 1:7 Reflection Joel 1:6 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, […]
Joel 1:7
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. < Joel 1:6 | > Joel 1:8 Reflection Joel 1:7 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the […]
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. < Joel 1:7 | > Joel 1:9 Reflection Joel 1:8 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Joel 1:9
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn. < Joel 1:8 | > Joel 1:10 Reflection Joel 1:9 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. […]
Joel 2:1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; < Joel 1:20 | > Joel 2:2 Reflection Joel 2:1 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often […]
Joel 2:10
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: < Joel 2:9 | > Joel 2:11 Reflection Joel 2:10 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, […]
Joel 2:11
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? < Joel 2:10 | > Joel 2:12 Reflection Joel 2:11 sits within Joel, prophetic warning […]
Joel 2:12
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: < Joel 2:11 | > Joel 2:13 Reflection Joel 2:12 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and […]
Joel 2:13
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. < Joel 2:12 | > Joel 2:14 Reflection Joel 2:13 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws […]
Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? < Joel 2:13 | > Joel 2:15 Reflection Joel 2:14 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the […]
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: < Joel 2:14 | > Joel 2:16 Reflection Joel 2:15 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]
Joel 2:16
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. < Joel 2:15 | > Joel 2:17 Reflection Joel 2:16 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? < Joel 2:16 | > Joel […]
Joel 2:18
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. < Joel 2:17 | > Joel 2:19 Reflection Joel 2:18 sits within Joel, prophetic warning and promise, where Scripture often draws attention to repentance, the day of the LORD, restoration, and the Spirit. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]