And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,.... Or "I will recompense to you the years" (m); give you fruitful ones, as a full compensation for those in which the locust ate up the…
Barnes' Notes
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten - The order in which these destroyers are named not being the same as before, it is plain that the stress is not on the order, but on the…
See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with…
Cambridge Bible
Abundance in place of the deprivations of Joe 1:4.
And I The discourse of the prophet passing imperceptibly, as often, into that of Jehovah: cf. e.g. Isa 3:4; Isa 13:11; Isa 56:7; Isa 60:7; Isa…