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towards it even to the doing of wonders.

Verse 27


They will learn thereby that Jehovah is present among His people, and the only true God, who does not suffer His people to be put to shame. The repetition of ולא יבשׁוּ וגו, by which the promised grace is guaranteed to the people for all ages, serves as a rhetorical rounding off of the section (see at Joe 2:20).

Verses 28-30

Joe 2:28-30 (Hebrew_Bible_3:1-3). Outpouring of the Spirit of God, and Announcement of Judgment.[1]
Joe 2:28. “And it will come to pass afterwards, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men see visions. Joe 2:29. And also upon the men-servants and maid-servants I will put out my Spirit in those days.” As ‘achărē-khēn points back to bâri'shōn in Joe 2:23,

  1. Among other special expositions of these verses, see Hengstenberg's Christology, vol. i. p. 326ff. translation.