Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 1:15
The day of the Lord — A day of greater trouble than yet they felt, troubles which God will heap upon them. Shall it come — Unless fasting, prayers and amendment prevent.
The day of the Lord — A day of greater trouble than yet they felt, troubles which God will heap upon them. Shall it come — Unless fasting, prayers and amendment prevent.
Verse 15. _ALAS FOR THE DAY!_] The _Syriac repeats_ this, the _Vulgate, Septuagint_, and _Arabic_, thrice: "Alas, alas, alas, for the day!" _AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY_] The destruction that...
ALAS FOR THE DAY! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our days...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...
A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...
THE DAY OF THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 2:12. This is the great subject of Joel's prophecy, already the. "at hand". DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebre...
The cessation of the daily sacrifices again occupies the prophet's thought; and he turns to the priests, bidding them not mourn only (Joel 1:9), but clothe themselves in sackcloth, and proclaim a day...
Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...
The prophet states more distinctly the ground for the exhortations of Joel 1:13. The present calamity is viewed by him as the harbinger of a far sorer calamity to come, even of the great "Day of Jehov...
_THE DAY OF THE LORD -- JOEL 1:14-17:_ Joel encouraged the priest to call for a fast all across the land. It was time for the entire nation to repent. The Law of Moses did not require a regular fast....
THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND— See Jeremiah 46:10 and Ezekiel 30:3....
THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - (Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11) i:e., the day of His anger (Isaiah...
1:15 Almighty (e-18) See Note, Isaiah 13:6 ....
THE DAY OF THE LORD] early in popular thought a time when Jehovah granted victory unto Israel (Amos 5:18), but in prophetic discourse a time of signal divine manifestation in judgment (as here in the...
THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...
THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...
ALAS. — The exclamation is repeated three times in the LXX. and Vulg., thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “When the prophet Joel was describing the formidable accidents in the day of the...
אֲהָ֖הּ לַ † יֹּ֑ום כִּ֤י קָרֹוב֙ יֹ֣ום...
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...
A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...
Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...
Alas for the day! for the (i) day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. (i) We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand....
_Day. Hebrew ahah layom: (Haydock) "Ah, what a day!" --- Mighty. Septuagint, "destruction." They have read in a different manner. God is about to give sentence, (Calmet) and to send Nabuchodonosor, (S...
The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...
_A DAY OF JUDGMENT_ ‘The day of the Lord is at hand.’ Joel 1:15 In the first two Chapter s Joel foretells, under the figure of an army, a most terrible plague of locusts. The palmer-worm, locust, c...
It now follows, _Alas the day! for nigh is the day of Jehovah. _Here the Prophet, as it was at first stated, threatens something worse in future than what they had experienced. He has hitherto been sh...
The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...
ALAS FOR THE DAY! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD [IS] AT HAND,.... A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars, c. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of...
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Ver. 15. _Alas, for the day, &c._] Gr. Alas, Alas, Alas; the Vulgate Latin A, A, A, which...
_Alas for the day!_ Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an irr...
Alas for the day! so the prophet himself laments, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD, the time of His stern visitation, IS AT HAND, AND AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY SHALL IT COME, bringing its desolating s...
PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...
This verse and the three next may be looked upon either as a particular declaration of the grounds of this fast, or as a direction how to manage the fast, a suggesting to the people what they should s...
Joel 1:15 Alas H162 day H3117 day H3117 LORD H3068 hand H7138 come H935 (H8799) destruction H7701 Almighty...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...
CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...
Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...
_Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come._ THE DAY OF THE LORD The prophet intimates that the destruction caused by the flight of th...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:15 THE DAY OF THE LORD is a major theme in Joel. It can refer to a particular act of judgment, like the devastation of the locusts, or it can refer to the future final judgment. “T...
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:15. THE DAY] of anger (Isaiah 13:9) and ill omen; evil in itself, and foreshadowing greater evils; a transition from invading locusts to the day of judgment upon all ungodly me...
EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....
Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 7:2; Isaiah 13:6; James 5:9;...