Joel 2:26 Cross References - BBE

²⁶ You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:

¹¹ Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

⁵ And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

¹¹ And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; ¹² Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

¹⁰ And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

⁷ There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

¹² And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

¹⁸ But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

¹⁰ So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship: ¹¹ And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

²⁵ And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

⁶ I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.

²⁶ The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

² O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me. ³ Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

¹⁹ They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

⁵ He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

⁷ Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

² Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them. ³ The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

²⁵ The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

¹ I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

¹ O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

²² For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.

¹⁷ But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

²³ And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

⁴ Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

² Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

⁸ The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done: ⁹ But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.

²⁰ I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up. ²¹ Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.

¹⁴ You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

¹¹ In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

¹⁵ The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.

¹⁷ For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

¹¹ Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.

³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge. ⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: ⁵ For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

²⁸ And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.