Joel 2:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Be glad, O sons of Zion, 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 latter rain, as before.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

Job 33:23

If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;

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, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel be glad in his Maker, let the sons 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 your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 30:23

And 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. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;

Isaiah 41:16

you shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And 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 soul 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 a harlot's brow, 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 sons 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

And I will make them and the places round about 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 going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Leviticus 26:4

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

Amos 4:7

“And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain upon one city, and send no rain upon 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 men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.

Zechariah 10:7

Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, 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 brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword.

Zechariah 9:9

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

Acts 14:17

yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Deuteronomy 11:14

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

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

Philippians 4:4

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