The fire hath devoured. — This may be explained as produced by the scorching heat bringing about spontaneous combustion, or by the efforts of the people to exterminate the locusts by burning the trees, or by the mark, as of fire, left upon all vegetation after the locusts had finished their work of devastation.
Verse Joel 1:19. _O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY_] Let this calamity come as it may, _we have sinned_, and should humble ourselves before God; and it is such a calamity as God alone can remove, therefore...
O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY - This is the only hope left, and contains all hopes. From the Lord was the infliction; in Him is the healing. The prophet appeals to God by His own Name, the faithful Fulfi...
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...
TO THEE WILL. CRY. Compare Psalms 50:15. THE FIRE. Compare Joel 2:3. WILDERNESS. common land....
_Unto thee, O_ JEHOVAH, _do I cry_ the prophet, speaking (as Joel 1:6_; Joel 1:13_) in the nation's name, turns for help to Jehovah, who "saveth men and cattle" (Psalms 36:6). _fire_ either fig. of th...
In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by t...
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...
_CRYING UNTO THE LORD -- JOEL 1:18-20:_ The devastation was great in the land. Joel wrote, "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of...
FOR THE FIRE HATH DEVOURED, &C.— By _the fire,_ is meant the fiery heat and drought which burned up all the pastures or pleasant places, both in the wilderness and in the valleys....
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...
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY. Joel here interposes. Since...
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...
FIRE.. FLAME] figurative of the drought....
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...
אֵלֶ֥יךָ יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א כִּ֣י אֵ֗שׁ אָֽכְלָה֙...
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...
_Places. Hebrew, "dwellings," or shepherds' huts. --- Wilderness, denoting all pasture land unploughed._...
Here comes in to our relief the blessedness of that gospel, which under the conviction of sin, and a total inability to help ourselves, leads to Christ. For I hope, I need not point out to the Reader,...
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...
When the Prophet saw that he succeeded less than he expected, leaving the people, he speaks of what he would do himself, _I will cry to thee, Jehovah. _He had before bidden others to cry, and why does...
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...
O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY,.... Or pray, as the Targum; with great vehemency and earnestness, commiserating the case of man and beast: these are the words of the prophet, resolving to use his interest...
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. Ver. 19. _O Lord, to thee will I cry_] I will, though othe...
_O Lord, to thee will I cry_ The prophet carries on the beautiful hypotyposis, (or description of the calamity, painted in such strong and bright colours as rendered it, as it were, present before the...
O Lord, to Thee will I cry; for the fire, the parching heat, HATH DEVOURED THE PASTURES OF THE WILDERNESS, of the great Judean steppes, AND THE FLAME, the fierce heat of the drought, HATH BURNED ALL T...
PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
PASTURES: Or, habitations...
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...
O LORD, Maker and Preserver of these poor famished cattle, TO THEE WILL I CRY: either it is the prophet's prayer he maketh, or a form prescribed for the priests. THE FIRE; the immoderate heats, or els...
Joel 1:19 LORD H3068 out H7121 (H8799) fire H784 devoured H398 (H8804) open H4057 pastures H4999 flame...
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...
_O Lord, to Thee will I cry._ ADDING PRAYERS TO COMPLAINTS Turn thy complaint into prayer, or else it is but a murmuring against God. It is by prayer we make our sorrowful hearts known to God. The r...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:19 TO YOU, O LORD, I CALL. The devastation brought by the Lord can be relieved only by him. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:19.] Beasts cry to God, but man hears not; the prophet is touched and cries for the impenitent. TO THEE] beasts even lift their heads in dumb appeal, and to thee I cry, for tho...
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 7:4; Habakkuk 3:17; Habakkuk 3:18; Jeremiah 9:10; Joel 2:3;...
The fire — The immoderate heats. The wilderness — The world, only means places not ploughed, and less inhabited than others....