Joel 1:7

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.

He hath ... barked my fig tree. Bochart, with the Septuagint and Syriac, translates from an Arabic root, 'hath broken'-namely, the topmost shoots, which locusts most feed on. Calvin supports the English version.

My vine ... my fig tree - being in "my land" - i:e., Yahweh's (). As to the vine-abounding nature of ancient My vine ... my fig tree - being in "my land" - i:e., Yahweh's (). As to the vine-abounding nature of ancient Palestine, see , "the grapes of Eshcol."

He hath made it clean bare, and cast it away - down to the ground.

The branches thereof are made white - both from the bark being stripped off (), and from the branches drying up through the trunk, both bark and wood being eaten up below by the locusts.