In this chapter we have, I. A further description of that terrible desolation which should be made in the land of Judah by the locusts and caterpillars, Joel 2:1–11. II.

Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law , The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume, which was one of those diseases of Egypt that God would bring upon them, Deut. 28:60. I.

We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the Joel 2:1–11: Therefore now turn you to the Lord. 1.

See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with his favours.

The promises of corn, and wine, and oil, in the Joel 2:12–27, would be very acceptable to a wasted country; but here we are taught that we must not rest in those things.