Joel 1:20

Even the wild animals long for you because the streams have dried up, and fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness.

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In The King James Version

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

In Context

19To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:7A while later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?”

Psalms 145:15All eyes are on you, waiting in hope, and you give food at just the right time.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:15-20

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. ( b. c. 720.) 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord , 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are… Read the whole commentary →

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