Promise

Promise

²³O children of Zion, be glad
and rejoice in the Lord your God;
for he has given the early rain^[a] for your vindication,
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the later rain, as before.
²⁴The threshing floors shall be full of grain,
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

²⁵I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army, which I sent against you.

²⁶You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
²⁷You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I, the Lord, am your God and there is no other.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.

Joel 2:23-27 (NRSVCE)