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24 Your threshing floors will be covered with grain.
    Olive oil and fresh wine will spill over
    from the places where they are stored.

25 The Lord says,

“I sent a great army of locusts to attack you.
    They included common locusts, giant locusts,
    young locusts and other locusts.
I will make up for the years
    they ate your crops.
26 You will have plenty to eat.
    It will satisfy you completely.
Then you will praise me.
    I am the Lord your God.
I have done wonderful things for you.
    My people will never again be put to shame.

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24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow(A) with new wine(B) and oil.

25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(C) have eaten(D)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(E) that I sent among you.
26 You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,(F)
    and you will praise(G) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders(H) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.