Joel 2:23

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God, because He gives you the autumn rain for your vindication. He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain as before.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

may You hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way they should walk in. May You send rain on Your land that You gave Your people for an inheritance.

Job 33:23

If there is an angel on his side, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what is right for him

Job 37:13

He causes this to happen for punishment, for His land, or for His faithful love.

Psalm 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to Him; I will rejoice in the Lord.

Psalm 147:8

who covers the sky with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, and causes grass to grow on the hills.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel celebrate its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I praise Him with my song.

Psalm 32:11

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

Psalm 84:6

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a source of springwater; even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.

Proverbs 16:15

When a king’s face lights up, there is life; his favor is like a cloud with spring rain.

Isaiah 30:21

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Isaiah 30:23

Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 61:10

I greatly rejoice in the Lord, I exult in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a groom wears a turban and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 3:3

This is why the showers haven’t come — why there has been no spring rain. You have the brazen look of a prostitute and refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:24

They have not said to themselves, ‘Let’s fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain, both early and late, in its season, who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’

Lamentations 4:2

Zion’s precious people — once worth their weight in pure gold — how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the area around My hill a blessing: I will send down showers in their season — showers of blessing.

Hosea 6:3

Let us strive to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Amos 4:7

I also withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. I sent rain on one city but no rain on another. One field received rain while a field with no rain withered.

Zechariah 10:1

Ask the Lord for rain in the season of spring rain. The Lord makes the rain clouds, and He will give them showers of rain and crops in the field for everyone.

Zechariah 10:7

Ephraim will be like a warrior, and their hearts will be glad as if with wine. Their children will see it and be glad; their hearts will rejoice in Yahweh.

Zechariah 9:13

For I will bend Judah as My bow; I will fill that bow with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece. I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; He is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Acts 14:17

although He did not leave Himself without a witness, since He did what is good by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and satisfying your hearts with food and happiness.”

Deuteronomy 11:14

I will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my word settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass and showers on tender plants.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a protection for you.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh —

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!