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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...
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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...
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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...
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TO THEE WILL. CRY. Compare Psalms 50:15.
THE FIRE. Compare Joel 2:3.
WILDERNESS. common land....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d)
TEXT: Joel 1:13-20
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Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye
ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...
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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...
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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...
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FIRE.. FLAME] figurative of the drought....
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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...
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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...
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אֵלֶ֥יךָ יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א כִּ֣י אֵ֗שׁ
אָֽכְלָה֙...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Places. Hebrew, "dwellings," or shepherds' huts. --- Wilderness,
denoting all pasture land unploughed._...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...
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PASTURES:
Or, habitations...
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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...
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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...
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Joel 1:19 LORD H3068 out H7121 (H8799) fire H784 devoured H398 (H8804)
open H4057 pastures H4999 flame...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:19 TO YOU, O LORD, I CALL. The devastation
brought by the Lord can be relieved only by him.
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Amos 7:4; Habakkuk 3:17; Habakkuk 3:18; Jeremiah 9:10; Joel 2:3;...
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The fire — The immoderate heats. The wilderness — The world, only
means places not ploughed, and less inhabited than others....