Joel 1:20

Even 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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In The King James Version

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

In Context

19Yahweh, 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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Cross References

1 Kings 17:7But after a while the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land.

Job 38:41Who provides victims for the ravens 1 when their young ones cry out to God 1 and stagger about for lack of food?

Psalms 145:15The eyes of all wait for you; 1 you give them their food at the right time. 1

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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