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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:3

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation . The prophet thus draws attention to the event which be is about to relate, or rather predict, a8 a calamity unknown in the memory of living men, unheard of in the days of their fathers, unparalleled in the past experience of their nation, and one affecting all the inhabitants of the land. He challenges the old men whose memory went furthest back, and whose experience had been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:4

That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. Some interpreters consider, and rightly, we think, that the prophet enumerates in this verse four different species of locusts. The common or general name is arbeh , from rabhah , to be many; the gazam , or palmer-worm, is the gnawer , or biter, from a root ( guzam ) which signifies... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

Three classes are called on to lament—the winebibbers, the husbandmen, and the priests. The verses before us ( Joel 1:5-7 ) contain the prophet's appeal to the drunkards. Their sin had not alarmed them; the danger with which their soul was imperilled bad not aroused them; now, however, the heavy visitation that awaited them would affect them more vehemently, touching them more nearly. Deprived of the means of their favourite indulgence, they are urged to awake from their stupid slumber and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

Awake! This solemn appeal to those who are designated and denounced as drunkards is fraught with implicit lessons of wisdom and faithfulness for all devout readers of God's Word. I. IT IMPLIES THE PREVALENCE OF SPIRITUAL SLUMBER . Such is the state of those who are immersed in the cares and the enjoyments of this earthly life, who are deaf to the thunder of the Law and to the promises of the gospel, who are blind to the visions of judgment or of grace that are passing... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

A call to drunkards. "Awake, ye drunkards, and weep I and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine! for it is cut off from your mouth." The words imply that the wine used in Judah was of an intoxicating character, that men in that country used it to an inebriating extent, and that such men should humble themselves in deep penitence on account of the great calamity that was coming upon the land. A more contemptible character, a more injurious member of the human family,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5-8

The lessons taught by this calamity. The lessons which God intended to teach his people by the calamitous events here recorded are solemn as salutary. Among them may be reckoned the ends for which they were sent, the alarming extent of them, and the effects produced. I. THE ENDS OF THE CRUSHING CALAMITY THEN PRESSING ON THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH . 1 . It was designed to rouse them out of their sinful slumber. Previous intimations of Divine displeasure had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:6

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number. The loss of the wine and of the sweet juice of the grape would be a source of genuine sorrow to the drinkers of wine; that loss would be occasioned by the destruction of the vines. In this and the following verse the prophet explains the instrumentality by which that destruction would be brought about. The prophet, fully identifying himself with his countrymen, speaking in their name and as their representative, says "my land."... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:7

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree (margin, laid my fig tree for a barking ): he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. We have here a detailed description of the destruction and devastation caused by this locust-army in its invasion of the land of Judah. The most valuable and most valued production of that land, the vine and fig tree, are ruined. The vine is laid waste, so that the vineyard becomes a wilderness: (1) "he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 1. The verb here, which is an ἅπαξ λεγόμενον , is (a) the ground, according to Aben Ezra; (b) naphshi , my soul, i.e. the prophet's address to himself; (c) the daughter of Zion, or virgin daughter of Zion; but (d) the congregation or people of Judah, as suggested in the Chaldee, is the real subject. 2. The mourning is of the deepest, bitterest kind, like that of a virgin for the... 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

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:5-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:8-13

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