Joel 2:23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

Job 33:23

Then, if there should be for one of them an angel, a mediator, one of a thousand, one who declares a person upright,

Job 37:13

Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

Psalm 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

Psalm 147:8

He covers the heavens with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, makes grass grow on the hills.

Psalm 149:2

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

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 32:11

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

Psalm 84:6

As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Isaiah 30:21

And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures;

Isaiah 41:16

You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. Then you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.”

Lamentations 4:2

The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold— how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Amos 4:7

And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

Zechariah 10:1

Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives showers of rain to you, the vegetation in the field to everyone.

Zechariah 10:7

Then the people of Ephraim shall become like warriors, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the Lord.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will arouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Acts 14:17

yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”

Deuteronomy 11:14

then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil;

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.

Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.