Joel 2:23

Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Cross References (36)

  • James 5:7–8 (49)

    Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patien

  • Philippians 4:4 (32)

    Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

  • Leviticus 26:4 (26)

    I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their f

  • Deuteronomy 11:14 (15)

    then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine,

  • Hosea 6:3 (15)

    So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the

  • Isaiah 12:2–6 (14)

    Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has

  • Isaiah 41:16 (11)

    You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you w

  • Psalms 149:2 (11)

    Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

  • Philippians 3:1 (10)

    Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a sa

  • Zechariah 10:1 (10)

    Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crop

  • Habakkuk 3:17–18 (9)

    Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no foo

  • Joel 2:28–29 (9)

    And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream d

  • Psalms 28:7 (8)

    The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give

  • Luke 1:46–47 (8)

    Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

  • Deuteronomy 28:12 (7)

    The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work o

  • Deuteronomy 32:2 (7)

    Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plan

  • Isaiah 30:23 (7)

    Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be ric

  • Philippians 3:3 (6)

    For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no co

  • Zechariah 10:7 (6)

    Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful;

  • Psalms 104:34 (6)

    May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

  • Zephaniah 3:14–17 (6)

    Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusale

  • Jeremiah 5:24 (6)

    They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in seaso

  • Isaiah 30:21 (5)

    And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in

  • Proverbs 16:15 (5)

    When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

  • Psalms 95:1–3 (5)

    Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!

  • Psalms 72:6–7 (5)

    May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

  • Psalms 32:11 (5)

    Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

  • Job 33:23 (5)

    Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

  • Jeremiah 3:3 (5)

    Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;

  • Isaiah 61:10 (5)

    I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and w

  • Lamentations 4:2 (4)

    How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a pot

  • Zechariah 9:9 (4)

    Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous a

  • Amos 4:7 (4)

    “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from

  • Galatians 4:26–27 (4)

    But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

  • Ephesians 4:8–11 (3)

    This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

  • Zechariah 9:13 (2)

    For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I w