Joel 1:7

He has made my vineyard into a desolate place 1 and has stripped my fig tree bare. 1 He has stripped its bark and thrown it away; 1 the branches are bare white. 1

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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 nation has come up upon my land, 1 strong and without number. 1 His teeth are the teeth of a lion, 1 and he has the teeth of a lioness. 1

8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:15They covered the surface of the whole land so that it was darkened. They ate every plant in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Throughout all the land of Egypt, no living green plant remained, nor any tree or plant in the fields.

Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste, and it will not be pruned nor hoed. Instead, briers and thorns will spring up. 1 I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 1

Isaiah 32:12You will wail for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines. 1

Hosea 2:12“I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, 1 of which she has said, 1 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.' 1 I will make them a forest, 1 and the animals of the field will eat them. 1

Amos 4:9I afflicted you with blight and mildew. 1 The multitude of your gardens, 1 your vineyards, 1 your fig trees, 1 and your olive trees— 1 the locusts devoured them all. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

Malachi 3:11I will speak against those who destroy your crops, so that they do not destroy the harvest of your land. Your vines in the fields will not lose their fruit,” says Yahweh of hosts.

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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