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Joel 1:12
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La vid se seca, y se marchita la higuera; también el granado, la palmera y el manzano, todos los árboles del campo se secan. Ciertamente se seca la alegría de los hijos de los hombres.
Se sec la vid, se marchit la higuera, el granado tambin, la palmera y el manzano; se secaron todos los rboles del campo; por lo cual se sec el gozo de los hijos de los hombres.
Se sec la vid, y pereci la higuera; el granado tambin, la palma, y el manzano; se secaron todos los rboles del campo; por lo cual se sec el gozo de los hijos de los hombres.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The vine: Dr. Shaw observes, that in Barbary, in the month of June the locusts are no sooner hatched than they collect themselves into compact bodies, each a "furlong or more square; and marching directly after they are come to life, make their way towards the sea and let nothing escape them, eating up everything that is green or juicy; not only the lesser vegetables, but the vine likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field." Joel 1:10, Habakkuk 3:17, Habakkuk 3:18
the pomegranate: Numbers 13:23, Psalms 92:12, Song of Solomon 2:3, Song of Solomon 4:13, Song of Solomon 7:7-9
joy: Joel 1:16, Psalms 4:7, Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 24:11, Jeremiah 48:3, Hosea 9:1, Hosea 9:2
Reciprocal: Isaiah 32:10 - for Jeremiah 48:33 - joy Joel 1:7 - laid Jonah 4:7 - it withered Malachi 3:11 - neither
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The vine is dried up,.... Withered away, stripped of its leaves and fruits, and its sap and moisture gone: or, "is ashamed" t; to see itself in this condition, and not answer the expectation of its proprietor and dresser:
and the fig tree languisheth; sickens and dies, through the bite of the locusts:
the pomegranate tree: whose fruit is delicious, and of which wine was made: the palm tree also; which bears dates:
and the apple tree; that looks so beautiful, when either in bloom, or laden with fruit, and whose fruit is very grateful to the palate; so that both what were for common use and necessary food, and what were for delight and pleasure, were destroyed by these noisome creatures:
[even] all the trees of the field are withered; for locusts not only devour the leaves and fruits of trees, but hurt the trees themselves; burn them up by touching them, and cause them to wither away and die, both by the saliva and dung, which they leave upon them, as Bochart, from various authors, has proved:
because joy is withered away from the sons of men; this is not given as a reason of the above trees dried up and withered, but of the lamentation of the vinedressers and husbandmen: or else the particle
כי is merely expletive, or may be rendered, "therefore", or "truly", or "surely" u, "joy is withered", or "ashamed"; it blushes to appear, as it used to do at the time of harvest; but now there was no harvest, and so no joy expressed, as usually was at such times; see Isaiah 9:3.
t הובישה "confusa est", V. L. "pudefacta est", Cocceius; "pudet", Drusius. u כי "ideo", Grotius; "imo", Piscator; "sane", Mercer.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because joy is withered away - o: “There are four sorts of joy, a joy in iniquity, a joy in vanity, a joy of charity, a joy of felicity. Of the first we read, “Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the forwardness of the wicked Proverbs 2:14. Of the second, “They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ” Job 21:12. Of the third, “Let the saints be joyful in glory” Psalms 149:5. Of the fourth, “Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house; they will be still praising Thee” Psalms 84:4. The joy of charity and the joy of felicity “wither from the sons of men,” when the virtues aforesaid failing, there being neither knowledge of the truth nor love of virtue, no reward succeedeth, either in this life or that to come.”
Having thus pictured the coming woe, he calls all to repentance and mourning, and those first, who were to call others. God Himself appointed these afflictive means, and here He “gives to the priest a model for penitence and a way of entreating mercy.” : “He invites the priests first to repentance through whose negligence chiefly the practice of holiness, the strictness of discipline, the form of doctrine, the whole aspect of the Church was sunk in irreverence. Whence the people also perished, hurrying along the various haunts of sin. Whence Jeremiah says, “The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, they have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood Lamentations 4:13-14.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. The vine is dried up — Dr. Shaw observes that in Barbary, in the month of June, the locusts collect themselves into compact bodies a furlong or more square, and march on, eating up every thing that is green or juicy, and letting nothing escape them, whether vegetables or trees.
They destroy the pomegranate, the palm, the apple, (תפוח tappuach, the citron tree,) the vine, the fig, and every tree of the field. Joel 2:2.
