Joel 2:25

25. By means of the bountiful harvest promised in Joel 2:24 Jehovah will restore to the people the loss they have suffered through the locusts.

Years The calamity was not limited to one year, and it is not easy to see how the effects of a calamity like that described in chapter i could have been confined to one year.

Locusts For the names see comment on Joel 1:4; here they occur in different order, an indication that the names cannot refer to locusts in successive stages of development.

My great army The locusts are identified with the “army” of Joel 2:11 (compare Joel 2:2); that takes us back also to Joel 1:4, proving that the prophet is concerned throughout with locusts as such, and not as symbols of hostile armies.