John Trapp on Joel 2:19

Verſe 19. Yea the Lord will anſwer and ſay unto his people] He will ſay it in anſwer to their prayers (ſee the Note on verſe 18.) Fear not my people, that ye ſhall be a reproach among the Heathen:

for Behold I will ſend you] as a token of my love, and a pledge of better bleſſings.

Corn and wine and oyle] all that heart can wiſh or need require, a ſufficiency of outward comforts, and (if not a ſuperfluity, yet) an honeſt affluence as Pſal. 23.5, 6. and boldneſſe to conclude from temporals to ſpirituals, as there David doth; becauſe beſtowed in mercy and as an anſwer to prayer: for God never ſaid to the ſeed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain (he ſcorns that) whether it be for Bona throni, or Bona ſcabelli, as Auſtin diſtinguiſheth, Good things of this life or a better, upper ſprings or nether ſprings, though we ask but the one (as here) yet we ſhall have both. Nay take two, ſaith He, as once Naaman did to Gehezi; take thy backburthen, take even as much as thou canſt bring faith to bear away. God deales with his ſervants as the Prophet did with the Shunamite, when He bad her ask what ſhe needed, and ſhe found not what to ask, he ſent for her againe, and makes her a free promiſe of that ſhe moſt wanted, and deſired, a ſon 2 King. 4.16. So, oft God is pleaſed to do for his ſervants exceeding abundantly above all that they ask or think. David asked but life of God, and He gave him length of dayes for ever, and ever, Pſal. 21.4. This people prayed that God would not (for that turn) give his heritage a reproach among the heathen; and He gratiouſly promiſeth that he will never any more make them a reproach &c. (ſo they continue penitent (for [non-Latin text not transcribed] here ſignifies perpetuity, as Mercer noteth: and not for a time only, as Lyra would have it.