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Joel 2:21-27

The Lord Restores the Years

November 25, 2027

The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet, 1857Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Three women bent over a field picking up what the harvest left. The painting outraged its first critics for dignifying the poorest workers in France.These readings are about leaving the edges of the field for the poor and about not grudging it, and the gleaners are the people that law exists for.Jean-François MilletA founder of the Barbizon school (1814-1875), who painted peasant labour at a scale previously reserved for history painting and was attacked as a political radical for it.Musée d'Orsay, ParisA railway station of 1900 converted into the museum of French art from 1848 to 1914, which is why its Impressionists stand under a train shed.Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMatt. 6:25-33Mt 6:25-33
Epistle1 Tim. 2:1-71 Tm 2:1-7
Old TestamentJoel 2:21-27Jl 2:21-27
PsalterPs. 126Ps 126

Overview & Insights

"You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you." (Joel 2:26)

Joel calls the land, the animals, and the people not to fear but to rejoice, because the Lord sends abundant rain and harvest, restores the years the locusts have eaten, and dwells in the midst of his people.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Joel 2:23-32Working Preacher: Commentary on Jl 2:23-32 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on Joel's harvest and restoration oracle overlapping the Thanksgiving reading.

Enduring Word: Joel 2Enduring Word: Jl 2 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on restoration and the promise of plenty.

Precept Austin: Joel 2 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Jl 2 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study page gathering many conservative commentators on Joel 2.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Joel 2:21BibleHub: Commentaries on Jl 2:21 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the call for the land to rejoice and be glad.

CEP: Joel 2 Commentary ArchiveCEP: Jl 2 Commentary Archive Center for Excellence in Preaching

Reformed preaching commentaries on Joel 2 gathered by the Center for Excellence in Preaching.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Joel 2 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Jl 2 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Joel 2 InterlinearBibleHub: Jl 2 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of Joel 2.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Joel 2Catena: Jl 2 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Joel 2.

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