* will.
  Isa 4:4  Eze 36:25,29  Mt 27:25 
 * for the Lord.  or, even I the Lord that.
  17  Eze 48:35  Re 21:3 



             CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JOEL.

 It is generally supposed, that the prophet Joel blends two
 subjects of affliction in one general consideration, or
 beautiful allegory; and that, under the devastation to be
 produced by locusts in the vegetable world, he portrays the more
 distant calamities to be inflicted by the armies of the
 Chaldeans in their invasion of Judea.  These predictions are
 followed by a more general denunciation of God's vengeance,
 delivered in such language as to be in some measure descriptive
 of the final judgment of mankind.  The prophet intermingles
 these declarations with earnest exhortations to repentance, and
 with promises of returning prosperity productive of Gospel
 blessings; foretelling, in the clearest terms, the general
 effusion of the Holy Spirit under the Christian dispensation,
 and the awful consequences of obstinately rejecting the sacred
 influence, especially to the Jews.  The state of this nation at
 the present day, fully attests the Divine inspiration of the
 prophecy.