Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joel 1:8
The husband of her youth — Espoused to her, but snatched away by an untimely death.
The husband of her youth — Espoused to her, but snatched away by an untimely death.
Verse 8. _LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN - FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH._] _Virgin_ is a very improper _version_ here. The original is בתולה _bethulah_, which signifies a _young woman_ or _bride_ not a _virgin...
LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN - The prophet addresses the congregation of Israel, as one espoused to God ; “‘Lament thou,’ daughter of Zion,” or the like. He bids her lament, with the bitterest of sorrows, as...
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...
The land is bidden to mourn as bitterly as a maiden mourning her betrothed, dead ere the marriage day. For most terrible consequence of the famine caused by the locusts no corn, wine, or oil can be ha...
THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE PLAGUE. Joel 1:5. The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are bidden...
LAMENT. Feminine. agreeing with "land", Joel 1:6....
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...
All classes are to unite in lamenting this calamity, which has not only (1) deprived them of some of their most valued luxuries, Joel 1:5, but also (2) interrupted the public worship of God, Joel 1:8,...
_Lament_ The verb is fem in the Hebrew, the community, personified as a woman, the "daughter of Judah," or "daughter of my people," being addressed. So often in the prophets: comp. on Amos 5:2. The wo...
Interruption of the public services of the Temple....
_A CALL TO REPENTANCE -- JOEL 1:8-13:_ The nation of Judah would suffer severe anguish. The farmers planted and tended his crops but it was all in vain. The crops were destroyed by the locust and by t...
LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN— _A young woman._ Houbigant. These words are an apostrophe to the land of Judah; the prophet puts her in mind, that she ought to be deeply affected with the heavy strokes of divin...
THE EXTENT OF THE PLEA FOR REPENTANCE; VIVID, ARRESTING TEXT: Joel 1:4-12 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eate...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. LAMENT - O "my land" (Joel 1:6; Isaiah 24:4). LIKE A VIRGIN GIRDED WITH SACKCLOTH FOR THE HUSBAND. A virgin betrothed was...
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...
FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH. — The land is addressed as a virgin betrothed, but not yet married, and forfeiting her marriage by unworthy conduct. Such was the relation of Israel to the Lord: He was f...
אֱלִ֕י כִּ בְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת ־שַׂ֖ק עַל ־בַּ
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...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (e) husband of her youth. (e) Mourn grievously as a woman who has lost her husband, to whom she has been married in her youth....
_Youth, whom she espoused first. Such are more tenderly loved, particularly where polygamy prevails. (Calmet) --- So Dido speaks of Sichæus, Virgil, \'c6neid iv.: Ille meos primus qui se mihi junxit a...
Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...
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...
The Prophet now addresses the whole land. _Lament_, he says; not in an ordinary way, but like a widow, whose husband is dead, whom she had married when young. The love, we know, of a young man towards...
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...
LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN,.... This is not the continuation of the prophet's speech to the drunkards; but, as Aben Ezra observes, he either speaks to himself, or to the land the Targum supplies it, O congr...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Ver. 8. _Lament like a virgin_] Our prophet hath done with his drunkards; and now applieth himself to the soberer sort, whom a...
_Lament_, &c. The prophet here calls upon the inhabitants of Judea to deprecate this grievous judgment, by humiliation and unfeigned sorrow for their sins; _like a virgin for the husband of her youth_...
Lament like a virgin, girded with sackcloth, the dress of mourning, FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH, whom, after their betrothal, death took away. The grief of a bereaved virgin and bride is represented...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
8-13 All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed...
The vicious and wicked among the Jews were alarmed and threatened in the former part of the chapter; now the prophet bespeaks the good and godly among them to prepare for mournful times. LAMENT: this...
Joel 1:8 Lament H421 (H8798) virgin H1330 girded H2296 (H8803) sackcloth H8242 husband H1167 youth H5271 Lamen
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...
_Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth._ The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the Lord. THE WORSHIP OF GOD SADLY NEGLECTED THROUGH...
_Awake, ye drunkards, and weep._ THE INSENSIBILITY AND MISERY OF THE DRUNKARD The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtaken...
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 1:8 BRIDEGROOM OF HER YOUTH. The people are called to grieve as deeply as a betrothed VIRGIN whose promised husband dies before they are married....
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:8. A VIRGIN] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her beloved taken away by a stroke (Ezekiel 16:...
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....
Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 32:11; James 4:8; James 4:9;...