Joël 1:19

Darby's French Translation

A toi, Éternel, je crierai; car le feu a dévoré les pâturages du désert, et la flamme à brûlé tous les arbres des champs.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Eternel, je crierai � toi, car le feu a consum� les cabanes du d�sert, et la flamme a br�l� tous les arbres des champs.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
�ternel, je crie � toi! Car le feu a d�vor� les p�turages du d�sert, et la flamme a consum� tous les arbres des champs.

Louis Segond (1910)
C'est vers toi que je crie, � Eternel! Car le feu a d�vor� les plaines du d�sert, Et la flamme a br�l� tous les arbres des champs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to thee: Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Micah 7:7, Habakkuk 3:17, Habakkuk 3:18, Luke 18:1, Luke 18:7, Philippians 4:6, Philippians 4:7

the fire: Joel 2:3, Jeremiah 9:10, Amos 7:4

pastures: or habitations

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 14:4 - the ground Joel 2:22 - for the pastures

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 at the through of grace in this time of distress, whatever others did:

for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness; or, "of the plain" c though in the wildernesses of Judea, there were pastures for cattle: Kimchi interprets them of the shepherds' tents or cotes, as the word d is sometimes used; which were will not to be pitched where there were pastures for their flocks: and so the Targum renders it, "the habitations of the wilderness"; these, whether pastures or habitations, or both, were destroyed by fire, the pastures by the locusts, as Kimchi; which, as Pliny e says, by touching burn the trees, herbs, and fruits of the earth; see Joel 2:3; or by the Assyrians or Chaldeans, who by fire and sword consumed all in their way; or by a dry burning blasting wind, as Lyra; and so the Targum interprets it of a strong east wind like fire: it seems rather to design extreme heat and excessive drought, which burn up all the produce of the earth:

and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field; which may be understood of flashes of lightning, which are common in times of great heat and drought; see Psalms 83:14.

c מדבר "non tantum desertum significat sed et campum sativum", Oecolampadius. "A place of pasture for cattle", Ben Melech. d נאות "caulas", Piscator. So Ben Melech. e Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Fulfiller of His promises, Him who Is, and who had promised to hear all who call upon Him. Let others call to their idols, if they would, or remain stupid and forgetful, the prophet would cry unto God, and that earnestly.

For the fire hath devoured the pastures - The gnawing of locusts leaves things, as though scorched by fire (see the note at Joel 2:3); the sun and the east wind scorch up all green things, as though it had been the actual contact of fire. Spontaneous combustion frequently follows. The Chaldees wasted all before them with fire and sword. All these and the like calamities are included under “the fire,” whose desolating is without remedy. What has been scorched by fire never recovers . “The famine,” it is said of Mosul, “was generally caused by fire spreading in dry weather over pastures, grass lands, and grain lands, many miles in extent. It burnt night and day often for a week and sometimes embraced the whole horizon.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 unto him must we cry.

The fire hath devoured the pastures — This may either refer to a drought, or to the effects of the locusts; as the ground, after they have passed over it, everywhere appears as if a sheet of flame had not only scorched, but consumed every thing.