The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #199
199. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 2
1-2 The Lord will come and will execute judgment (1, 15)
2 when falsity and evil from the sensual has destroyed the whole church. (3)
4-9 Falsity of evil will destroy all things of it by various insanities. (3)
10 All good and truth has been dispersed, together with the knowledges [cognitiones] of them. (3)
11 The Lord will fight with them. (7)
12-17 Exhortation to be converted to Him, to repent, and to be wise. (2)
18-19 The Lord will establish the church, to which He will give its goods and truths, (11)
20 and will remove falsities of evil, and thus hell. (11, 17)
21-25 They will have trust in the Lord, from which they will have goods and felicities, (11)
26-27 and acknowledgment from the heart. (11)
28-29 By His Divine the Lord will fill those who are of that church with all things and will vivify them. (11, 12)
30-31 Falsities of evil and evils of falsity will dissipate influx on the day of judgment, (3, 15)
32 but those who acknowledge and worship the Lord will be saved. (17)
Joel 2:12-17
12
"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
14
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
15
Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
16
Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.
17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
