Joel 2:22

New International Reader's Version

Wild animals, don’t be afraid. The desert grasslands are turning green again. The trees are bearing their fruit. The vines and fig trees are producing rich crops.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

When you farm the land, it will not produce its crops for you anymore. You will be a restless person who wanders around on the earth.”

Psalm 36:6

Your holiness is as great as the height of the highest mountains. You are as honest as the oceans are deep. Lord, you keep people and animals safe.

Psalm 65:12

The grass grows thick even in the desert. The hills are dressed with gladness.

Psalm 65:13

The meadows are covered with flocks and herds. The valleys are dressed with grain. They sing and shout for joy.

Psalm 67:6

The land produces its crops. God, our God, blesses us.

Isaiah 51:3

You can be sure that I will comfort Zion’s people. I will look with loving concern on all their destroyed buildings. I will make their deserts like Eden. I will make their dry and empty land like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be there. People will sing and give thanks to me.

Ezekiel 36:30

I will multiply the fruit on your trees. I will increase the crops in your fields. Then the nations will no longer make fun of you because you are hungry.

Ezekiel 36:35

They will say, ‘This land was completely destroyed. But now it’s like the Garden of Eden. The cities were full of broken-down buildings. They were destroyed and empty. But now they have high walls around them. And people live in them.’

Ezekiel 36:8

“ ‘ “Mountains of Israel, you will produce branches and bear fruit for my people Israel. They will come home soon.

Jonah 4:11

And shouldn’t I show concern for the great city of Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people. They can’t tell right from wrong. Nineveh also has a lot of animals.”

Haggai 2:16

People went to get 20 measures of grain. But they could find only 10. They went to where the wine was stored to get 50 measures. But only 20 were there.

Zechariah 8:12

“Your seeds will grow well. Your vines will bear fruit. The ground will produce crops for you. And the heavens will drop their dew on your land. I will give all these things to those who are still left alive here.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So the one who plants is not important. The one who waters is not important. It is God who makes things grow. He is the important one.