The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain obstinate. Secondly, he threatens greater plagues, because they grow daily to a more hardness of heart and reb... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear this, ye (a) old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath (b) this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? (a) Signifying the princes, the priests, and the governors. (b) He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's judgments, who had now plagued the fruits o... [ Continue Reading ]
Awake, ye (c) drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. (c) Meaning, that the reason for their excess and drunkenness was taken away.... [ Continue Reading ]
For (d) a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. (d) This was another plague with which God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The meat offering and the drink offering is (f) cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. (f) The signs of God's wrath appeared in his temple, in so much that God's service was discontinued.... [ Continue Reading ]
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: (g) the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. (g) All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.... [ Continue Reading ]
(h) Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. (h) He shows that the only means to avoid God's wrath, and to have all thing... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the (k) fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (k) That is, drought.... [ Continue Reading ]