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Joel 1:7

Joel 1:7
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

He hath laid my vine waste,.... That is, the locust, which spoiled the vines in Judea, the singular being put for the…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree - This describes an extremity of desolation. The locusts at first…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Joel 1:1-7

It is a foolish fancy which some of the Jews have, that this Joel the prophet was the same with that Joel who was the…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

He hath made my vine into a waste, and my fig-tree into splinters] The vine and the fig-tree are mentioned as the two…