Pentecost Season · Thanksgiving Day USA · Year B
Joel 2:21-27
The Lord Restores the Years
November 25, 2027

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 2:23-32 Working Preacher
Lutheran lectionary commentary on Joel's harvest and restoration oracle overlapping the Thanksgiving reading.
Enduring Word: Joel 2 Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on restoration and the promise of plenty.
Precept Austin: Joel 2 Commentary Precept Austin
Detailed study page gathering many conservative commentators on Joel 2.
BibleHub: Commentaries on Joel 2:21 BibleHub
Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the call for the land to rejoice and be glad.
CEP: Joel 2 Commentary Archive Center for Excellence in Preaching
Reformed preaching commentaries on Joel 2 gathered by the Center for Excellence in Preaching.
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