Joel 1:19
The Lord, I cry to you,For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
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Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble.I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Jeremiah 3:9It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Jeremiah 9:10"For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone."
Amos 7:4Thus the Lord God showed me and behold, the Lord God called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
Habakkuk 3:17For though the fig tree doesn't flourish,nor fruit be in the vines;the labor of the olive fails,the fields yield no food;the flocks are cut off from the fold,and there is no herd in the stalls:
Luke 18:7Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with 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 →