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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
laid	שָׂ֤ם sam	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
vine	גַּפְנִי֙ gaf.Ni	H1612	a vine (as twining) · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix
waste	לְשַׁמָּ֔ה le.sha.Mah	H8047	ruin · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
barked	לִקְצָפָ֑ה lik.tza.Fah	H7111	a fragment · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
tree	וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י u.te.'e.na.Ti	H8384	the fig (tree or fruit) · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
clean	חָשֹׂ֤ף cha.Sof	H2834	to strip off · verb, qal infinitive absolute
bare	חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ cha.sa.Fah	H2834	to strip off · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
away	וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ ve.hish.Likh	H7993	to throw out · conjunction + verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
branches	שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ sa.ri.Gei.ha	H8299	a tendril (as entwining) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
white	הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ hil.Bi.nu	H3835	to be (or become) white · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that…
Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the pal…
Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the…
Exodus 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of t…
Psalms 105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Isaiah 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the…
Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make th…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 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 son of Samuel (Sa1 8:2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show why Samuel is here called Pethuel. This Joel was long after that. He here speaks of a sad and sore judgment which was now brought, or to be brought, upon Judah, for their sins. Observe, I. The greatness of the judgment, expressed here in two things: - 1. It was such as could not be paralleled in the ages that were past, in history, or in the memory of any living, Joe 1:2. The old men are appealed to, who could remember what had happened long ago; nay, and all the inhabitants of the land are calle…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:7

barked--BOCHART, with the Septuagint and Syriac, translates, from an Arabic root, "hath broken," namely, the topmost shoots, which locusts most feed on. CALVIN supports English Version. my vine . . . my fig tree--being in "My land," that is, Jehovah's (Joe 1:6). As to the vine-abounding nature of ancient Palestine, see Num 13:23-24. cast it away--down to the ground. branches . . . white--both from the bark being stripped off (Gen 30:37), and from the branches drying up through the trunk, both bark and wood being eaten up below by the locusts.

John Gill on Joel 1:7

He hath laid my vine waste,.... That is, the locust, which spoiled the vines in Judea, the singular being put for the plural, by gnawing the branches, biting the tops of them, and devouring the leaves and the fruit; and so not only left them bare and barren, but destroyed them: this may emblematically represent the Assyrians or Babylonians wasting the land of Judea, the vine and vineyard of the Lord of hosts; see Isaiah 5:1; and barked my fig tree; gnawed off the bark of them; locusts are not only harmful to vines, as is hinted by Theocritus (o), but to fig trees also: Pliny (p) speaks of fig trees in Boeotia gnawn by locusts, which budded again; and mentions it as something wonderful and m…

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The Church Fathers

O wretched beings, who by going after the praises of men waste to themselves all the fruits of their labors, and while they aim to show themselves to the eyes of others, blast all that they do. When the evil spirits prompt them to boastfulness, taking them for a prey they strip bare their works, as we have said. Hence Truth, in setting forth by the prophet the rancor of our old enemies under the form of a particular people, says, "It has laid waste my vines and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white."
— Gregory the Dialogist, MORALS ON THE BOOK OF JOB 2:8.82

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Dictionary and topics

Locust — There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law…
Fig Tree, The · The Jews punished by: Barking and eating of, by locusts — The Jews punished by: Barking and eating of, by locusts
Locust · General references — General references
Locust, The · Illustrative: Of destructive enemies — Illustrative: Of destructive enemies
Nation · Chastised — Chastised
Vine, The · Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment — Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Joel 1:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:7

John Gill on Joel 1:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Joel 1:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:7

John Gill on Joel 1:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Joel 1:6-7

Keil & Delitzsch on Joel 1:5-7

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joel 1:7