Joel 1:10
The fields are ruined, 1 the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed. 1 The new wine has dried up, 1 the oil fails. 1
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Isaiah 24:3The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped; 1 for Yahweh has spoken this word. 1
Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land go on drying up, and the plants in every field wither because of the wickedness of its inhabitants? 1 The animals and the birds have been taken away. Indeed, the people say, “God will not see what happens to us.” 1
Jeremiah 14:2“Let Judah mourn; let her gates fall apart. They are wailing for the land; 1 their cries for Jerusalem are going up. 1
Hosea 4:3So the land is drying up, 1 and everyone living in it is wasting away; 1 the beasts in the fields and the birds in the sky, 1 even the fish in the sea, are being taken away.
Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! 1 Wail, all you drinkers of wine, 1 because the sweet wine has been cut off from you. 1
Joel 1:17The seeds rot under their clods, 1 the granaries are desolate, 1 and the barns have been broken down, 1 for the grain has withered. 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 →