Joel 1:7
It has ruined my grapevines and destroyed my fig trees, stripping them completely and reducing them to stumps, white and bare.
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In Context
8Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.
Cross References
Exodus 10:15They covered the ground until it looked black, and they ate up all the plants in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had been left by the hail. Not a single green leaf was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt.
Isaiah 5:6I'll turn it into a wasteland. It won't be pruned or weeded—it will be overgrown with brambles and thorns. I'll order the clouds not to rain on it.”
Isaiah 32:12Beat your breasts in sadness over the loss of your lovely fields, your productive vines,
Hosea 2:12I will destroy her vines and fig trees that she said were given to her as payment for being a prostitute. I will turn them into scrub-land; only wild animals will eat the remaining fruit.
Amos 4:9I struck your many farms and vineyards with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your fig trees and olive trees. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.
Malachi 3:11I will prevent locusts from destroying your crops, and your vineyards will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8
Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →