Joel 2 · Verse 30

Joel 2:30

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel 2:30, King James Version

Joel 2:30 in other translations

BSBI will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
WEBI will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
ASVAnd I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
YLTAnd I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke.
DARBYAnd I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
BBEAnd I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
WebsterAnd I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

What does Joel 2:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 2:30-31
30-31. As Messiah's manifestation is full of joy to believers, so it has an aspect of wrath to unbelievers, which is represented here. Thus when the Jews received Him not in His coming of grace, He came in judgment on Jerusalem. Physical prodigies, massacres, and conflagrations preceded its destruction [Josephus, Wars of the Jews]. To these the language here may allude; but the figures chiefly symbolize political revolutions and changes in the ruling powers of the world, prognosticated by previous disasters (Am 8:9; Mt 24:29; Lu 21:25-27), and convulsions such as preceded the overthrow of the Jewish polity. Such shall probably occur in a more appalling degree before the final destruction of the ungodly world ("the great and terrible day of Jehovah," compare Mal 4:5), of which Jerusalem's overthrow is the type and earnest.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 Wonders in the heavens and in the earth - This refers to those dreadful sights, dreadful portents, and destructive commotion, by which the Jewish polity was finally overthrown, and the Christian religion established in the Roman empire. See how our Lord applies this prophecy, Mat 24:29 (note), and the parallel texts.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 2:28-32

The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting grace and miraculous gifts conferred on both Jews and Gentiles. The judgments of God upon a sinful world, only go before the judgment of the world in the last day. Calling on God supposes knowledge of him, faith in him, desire toward him, dependence on him, and, as evidence of the…

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Joel 2:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ve.na.ta.Tiand I will putH5414
מֽוֹפְתִ֔יםmof.TimwondersH4159
בַּשָּׁמַ֖יִםba.sha.Ma.yimin the heavensH8064
וּבָאָ֑רֶץu.va.'A.retzand on the earthH776
דָּ֣םdambloodH1818
וָאֵ֔שׁva.'Eshand fireH784
וְתִֽימֲר֖וֹתve.ti.ma.Rotand columns ofH8490
עָשָֽׁן\׃'a.ShansmokeH6227

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Cross references for Joel 2:30

  • Acts 2:19-20

    And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

  • Luke 21:11

    And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

  • Matthew 24:29

    Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

  • Luke 21:25-26

    And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

  • Judges 20:40

    But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

  • Mark 13:24-25

    But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

  • Revelation 6:12-17

    And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; …

  • Genesis 19:28

    And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  • Revelation 18:9

    And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

  • Song of Solomon 3:6

    Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

  • Joshua 8:20

    And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

  • Revelation 18:18

    And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.
Mt 24:29; Mr 13:24; Lu 21:11,25,26; Ac 2:19,20; Re 6:12-17
pillars.
Ge 19:28; Jos 8:20; Jud 20:38,40; So 3:6; Re 18:9,18

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Context

  • Joel 2:29

    And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

  • Joel 2:30

    And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

  • Joel 2:31

    The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.

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Joel 2:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y daré prodigios en el cielo y en la tierra, sangre, y fuego, y columnas de humo.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde Wunder geben im Himmel und auf der Erde: Blut und Feuer und Rauchsäulen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et dabo prodigia in cælo et in terra, sanguinem, et ignem, et vaporem fumi.