Joel 2:25

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, etc.] Or “I will recompense to you the years” F59; give you fruitful ones, as a full compensation for those in which the locust ate up the fruits of the earth for some years running: the canker worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer worm; of which (see <290104> Joel 1:4); my great army which I sent among you; as in (<290211>Joel 2:11); the Targum of the whole is, “and I will recompense unto you good years, in the room of the years in which the people, nations, and tongues, the governors and kingdoms of vengeance, spoiled you, my great army which I sent among you;” and Kimchi observes, that the sense of the Targumist is, that…”

“locust . . . cankerworm . . . caterpiller . . . palmer worm--the reverse order from Joe 1:4, where (see on Joe 1:4) God will restore not only what has been lost by the full-grown consuming locust, but also what has been lost by the less destructive licking locust, and swarming locust, and gnawing locust.”

“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 successiveness of the inroads, scourge after scourge. It is plain too that they did not come in the same year, or two years, but year after year, for he says, not “year,” but in the plural, “years.” The locusts, although not the whole plague, intended, are not excluded. : “As the power of God was shewn in the plagues of Egypt by small animals, such as the cyniphes, gnats so small as scarce to be seen, so also now,” in creatures so small “is shown the power of God and weakness of man. If a…”

“Restore - Make up to you. Joel 2:26”

“2:25 The Lord promised restitution for the terrible damage done by the locusts (see 1:4, 10, and corresponding study notes).”

“that: Joe 2:2-11, Joe 1:4-7; Zac 10:6 Joel 2:26”