Joel 1:19

Yahweh, I cry to you. 1 For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, 1 and flames have burned all the trees of the fields. 1

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O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

In Context

18How the animals groan! 1 The herds of cattle are suffering 1 because they have no pasture. 1 Also, the flocks of sheep suffer. 1

20Even the animals of the fields pant for you, 1 for the water brooks have dried up, 1 and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Cross References

Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble; 1 I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.” 1

Jeremiah 3:9Her prostitution was nothing to her; she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stones and trees.

Jeremiah 9:10I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. 1 For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. 1 The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away. 1

Amos 7:4This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.

Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud 2 and there is no produce from the vines; 2 and though the produce of the olive tree disappoints 2 and the fields yield no food; 2 and though the flock is cut off from the fold 2 and there are no cattle in the stalls, this is what I will do. 1

Luke 18:7Now will not God also bring justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

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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