Joel 1:11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; + 1:11 i.e., farmers 1 wail, O ye vinedressers, 1 for the wheat and for the barley; 1 because the katzir (harvest) of the sadeh is perished. 1
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Jeremiah 9:12And Hashem saith, Because they have forsaken My torah which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, neither walked therein;
Jeremiah 14:3And their noble s have sent their servants for mayim; 1 they came to the cisterns, and found no mayim; 1 they returned with their vessels empty; 1 they were ashamed and dismayed, 1 and covered their rosh. 1
Amos 5:16Therefore Hashem Adonoi Elohei Tzva'os saith thus: 1 Wailing shall be in all rechovot; 1 and they shall cry in all the public squares, 1 Alas! Alas! And they shall call the ikkar (farmer) to mourning, 1 and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing. 1
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:9-14
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord ; the priests, the Lord 's ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up,… Read the whole commentary →