Joel 2:24

Modern

The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Traditional

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Literal

Will be full and the threshing floors of wheat, and the wine vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Latin

Et implebuntur areæ frumento, et redundabunt torcularia vino et oleo.

Hebrew

English

The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

God promised to restore the material life of his people in the near future. He would refill their fields, orchards, vineyards, and flocks.

Theme notes and profiles

Amos 9:13
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
Joel 3:18
And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
Joel 3:13
Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
Leviticus 26:10
You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.