Verse 7. _HE HATH LAID MY VINE WASTE_] The locusts have eaten off both _leaves_ and _bark_. חשף חשפה chasoph chasaphah, he hath _made it clean bare_; שדד שדה suddad sadeh, the field is laid _waste_,...
HE HATH LAID MY VINE WASTE, AND BARKED MY FIG TREE - This describes an extremity of desolation. The locusts at first attack all which is green and succulent; when this has been consumed, then they att...
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 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...
HE. The nation of Joel 1:6. MY VINE... MY FIG TREE. Note this "My", for Jehovah is about to recover His People Israel, as the issue of "the day of the Loan". Compare Psalms 80:8; Psalms 80:14.
_He hath_ MADE _my vine_ INTO A WASTE, _and my fig-tree_ INTO SPLINTERS] The vine and the fig-tree are mentioned as the two principal and most representative fruit-trees of Palestine, the vine holding...
By what agency this devastation has been wrought: an army of depredators has invaded Judah, countless in numbers and well equipped for their work; and vine and fig-tree have been left by them bare. _...
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,...
_A TERRIBLE PLAGUE OF LOCUST -- JOEL 1:1-7:_ The message of this book was an inspired message. Observe the expression, "The word of the LORD that came to Joel." Joel describes a locust plague in that...
MY VINE— This is the name of Judah, Psalms 80:8. Instead of, _Cast it away,_ Houbigant reads, _Deprived it of all fruit._...
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...
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...
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...
MY VINE. — This expression might well captivate the Jewish ear. God appropriates to Himself this land on which the trouble was, by His providence, to fall, and in wrath remembers mercy. It is “my vine...
שָׂ֤ם גַּפְנִי֙ לְ שַׁמָּ֔ה וּ תְאֵנָתִ֖י לִ
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...
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...
He afterwards adds, that _his vine had been exposed to desolation and waste, his fig-tree to the stripping of the bark. _God speaks not here of his own vine, as in some other places, in which he desig...
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...
HE HATH LAID MY VINE WASTE,.... That is, the locust, which spoiled the vines in Judea, the singular being put for the plural, by gnawing the branches, biting the tops of them, and devouring the leaves...
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. Ver. 7. _He hath laid my vine waste_] The prophet proceeds in...
He hath laid My vine waste, by consuming its foliage, AND BARKED MY FIG-TREE, gnawing off the bark and laying bare stem and branches, so that they were ruined; HE HATH MADE IT CLEAN BARE AND CAST IT A...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
BARKED MY FIG TREE: _ Heb._ laid my fig tree for a barking...
1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destr...
HE, that nation of locusts, JOEL 1:6, both literally and mystically understood, hath laid my vine waste; made it a desolation, i.e. most desolate, which is more particularly declared in what followeth...
Joel 1:7 laid H7760 (H8804) waste H8047 vine H1612 ruined H7111 tree H8384 stripped H2834 (H8800) bare...
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...
_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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2 contain the spirited introduction. OLD MEN] are called upon to note the unus...
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....
Exodus 10:15; Habakkuk 3:17; Hosea 2:12; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 5:6;...