Joel 1:11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 1:8-13

The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the better borne), but it shall deprive others of their necessary subsistence, who are therefore called to lament (Joel 1:8), as a virgin laments the death of her lover to whom she was espoused, but not completely married, yet so that he was in effect her husband, or as a young woman lately married,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen ,.... Tillers of the land, who have took a great deal of pains in cultivating the earth, dunging, ploughing, and sowing it; confusion may cover you, because of your disappointment, the increase not answering to your expectations and labours: howl, O ye vinedressers ; that worked in the vineyards, set the vines, watered and pruned them, and, when they had done all they could to them, were dried up with the drought, or devoured by the locusts, as they were... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:11

Verse 11 The Prophet says nothing new here, but only strengthens what he had said before, and is not wordy without reason; for he intends here not merely to teach, but also to produce an effect: And this is the design of heavenly teaching; for God not only wishes that what he says may be understood, but intends also to penetrate into our hearts: and the word of God, we know, consists not of doctrine only, but also of exhortations, and threatenings, and reproofs. This plan then the Prophet now... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:8-13

The consequence of such ruin and havoc is great and general lamentation. The drunkards were first called on in the preceding verses to mourn, for the distress came first and nearest to them. But now the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn; things inanimate, by a touching personification, join in the lamentation—the land mourneth; the husbandmen that till the ground mourn. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:9-13

The calamity has fallen upon all, and therefore the wail of woe proceeds from all. All classes are summoned to this sorrowful work; no office in the state is exempt; things animate and inanimate; priests and people—the Lord's priests who ministered at the altar, and the people to whom they ministered; the whole land and the fields into which it was partitioned; the tillers of the soil and the dressers of the vine. I. POVERTY TENDS TO THE DECAY OF PIETY . As a rule neither... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:11-12

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen . The verb from בּושׁ (formed from יַבֵשׁ ), to be or feel ashamed, or turn pale with shame; חָפֵר is "to blush or turn red with shame." It is written defectively, to distinguish it from הוֹבִישׁ , which occurs in the tenth verse and again in the twelfth, and which is the Hiph. of יָבֵשׁ , to be parched or dried up. Their hope was disappointed through the destruction of their wheat and barley—their most serviceable and valuable cereals; while... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye farmers - The prophet dwells on and expands the description of the troubles which he had foretold, setting before their eyes the picture of one universal dessolation. For the details of sorrow most touch the heart, and he wished to move them to repentance. He pictures them to themselves; some standing aghast and ashamed of the fruitlessness of their toil others giving way to bursts of sorrow, and all things around waste and dried. Nothing was exempt. Wheat and barley,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joel 1:11-12

Joel 1:11-12. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen Be struck with confusion to see all your hopes disappointed, and no fruit arising from your labour; to find nothing of that which you had made yourselves sure of. Howl, O ye vine-dressers This is to be referred to what is said in the next verse, and not to the words immediately following, which belong to the husbandmen, as the subject for their lamentation; as the vine, being dried up, was the cause of the sorrow of the vine-dressers. Because... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joel 1:1-20

1:1-2:11 THE GREAT LOCUST PLAGUEEffects of the plague (1:1-20)So devastating is the current locust plague, that even the oldest people cannot remember anything like it. The whole countryside has been stripped bare. Joel tells the people to pass the story of the plague on to their children and grandchildren, so that it will not be forgotten (1:1-4). Those who have greedily lived for their own pleasure are punished. They will no longer get drunk with wine, because the locusts have destroyed the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:11

11. Be . . . ashamed—that is, Ye shall have the shame of disappointment on account of the failure of "the wheat" and "barley . . . harvest." howl . . . vine dressers—The semicolon should follow, as it is the "husbandmen" who are to be "ashamed . . . for the wheat." The reason for the "vine dressers" being called to "howl" does not come till Joel 1:12, "The vine is dried up." read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joel 1:8-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joel 1:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 1:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:8-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:9-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:11-12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joel 1:11-12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joel 1:1-20

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:11

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