Joel 2:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

Job 33:23

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Job 37:13

For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

Psalm 104:34

Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

Psalm 147:8

By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

Psalm 32:11

Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

Psalm 84:6

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

Isaiah 30:21

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

Isaiah 30:23

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

Isaiah 41:16

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 61:10

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

Jeremiah 3:3

So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

Jeremiah 5:24

And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

Lamentations 4:2

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.

Hosea 6:3

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Leviticus 26:4

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

Amos 4:7

And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

Zechariah 10:1

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

Zechariah 10:7

And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

Zechariah 9:9

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

Acts 14:17

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

Deuteronomy 11:14

Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Deuteronomy 28:12

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

Philippians 3:1

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

Philippians 4:4

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.