Joel 1:7

He hath laid my gefen (vine) waste, 1 and barked my teenah (fig tree); 1 he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; 1 the branches thereof are made white. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

In Context

6For a Goy is come up upon my land, 1 strong, and without number, 1 whose teeth are the teeth of an aryeh (lion), 1 and he hath the fangs of a lioness. 1

8Lament like a betulah girded with sackcloth 1 for the ba'al (husband) of her youth. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:15For they covered the kol ha'aretz, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat kol esev ha'aretz, and kol p'ri haetz which the barad had left as remnant; and there remained not any yerek baetz, or in the esev hasadeh, through kol Eretz Mitzrayim.

Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste; 1 it shall not be pruned, 1 nor cultivated; 1 but there shall come up briers and thorns; 1 I will also command the clouds that they rain no matar (rain) upon it. 1

Isaiah 32:12They shall mournfully beat upon their breasts, 1 for the pleasant fields, 1 for the fruitful gefen (vine). 1

Hosea 2:12And now will I expose her navlut (lewdness) 1 in the sight of her lovers, 1 and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand. 1

Amos 4:9I have struck you with blight and mildew; 1 when your ganim (gardens) and your kramim (vineyards) 1 and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, 1 the locust devoured them; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

Malachi 3:11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, 1 and he shall not destroy the p'ri ha'adamah; 1 neither shall your gefen cast her fruit before the time in the sadeh, 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os. 1

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 →

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