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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Joel 1:6

Nations. Some understand the Assyrians or Chaldeans. But locusts are here styled a nation, Proverbs xxx. 25. --- Lion. Such locusts are described, Apocalypse ix. 8. (Calmet) --- "In India they are said to be three feet long, and their legs and thighs are used for saws when dried." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 29.) --- They were attacked by regular troops in Syria. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 29.)

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See also Joel 1:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 6. _A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND_] That real _locusts_ are intended there can be little doubt; but it is thought that this may be a _double prophecy_, and that the destruction by the _Chald...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND - He calls this scourge of God a “nation,” giving them the title most used in Holy Scripture, of pagan nations. The like term, “people, folk,” is used of the “ants...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE PLAGUE. Joel 1:5. The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are bidden...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A NATION. See Joel 2:20. and compare Daniel 11. Put for the great destroying powers which are symbolized in Joel 1:4 BY THE LOCUSTS. Compare Joel 2:2;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    All classes are to unite in lamenting this calamity, which has not only (1) deprived them of some of their most valued luxuries, Joel 1:5, but also (2) interrupted the public worship of God, Joel 1:8,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    By what agency this devastation has been wrought: an army of depredators has invaded Judah, countless in numbers and well equipped for their work; and vine and fig-tree have been left by them bare. _...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _A TERRIBLE PLAGUE OF LOCUST -- JOEL 1:1-7:_ The message of this book was an inspired message. Observe the expression, "The word of the LORD that came to Joel." Joel describes a locust plague in that...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR A NATION IS COME UP— A word of consideration concerning the locusts may not be altogether improper, says Dr. Sharpe in his _Second Argument,_ &c. And as the commentators are divided in their opini...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT OF THE PLEA FOR REPENTANCE; VIVID, ARRESTING TEXT: Joel 1:4-12 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eate...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. FOR A NATION - applied to the locusts, rather tha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A NATION] figurative of the locusts: cp. similar figure for ants and conies in Proverbs 30:25. MY LAND] i.e. of Jehovah since the prophet gives His message. THE TEETH OF A LION] in destructiveness. TH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A NATION. — It was not uncommon with Hebrew writers to apply the name people or folk to animals, as, “The ants are a people not strong;” “The conies are but a feeble folk” (Proverbs 30:25); but the wo...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־גֹוי֙ עָלָ֣ה עַל ־אַרְצִ֔י עָצ֖וּם וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (d) a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. (d) This was another plague with which God ha...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Of what some think, that punishment, not yet inflicted, is denounced here on the people, I again repeat, I do not approve; but, on the contrary, the Prophet, according to my view, records another judg...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR A NATION IS COME UP UPON MY LAND,.... A nation of locusts, so called from their great numbers, and coming from foreign parts; just as the ants are called a "people", and the conies a "folk", Prov...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. Ver. 6. _For a nation is come up upon my land_] A...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For a nation is come up upon my land_ Insects are described as a nation or people marching in order under their leaders, both by sacred and profane writers, because of their power to do mischief, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For a nation is come up upon My land, a great and mighty army of fierce warriors, STRONG AND WITHOUT NUMBER, in swarms of countless myriads, WHOSE TEETH ARE THE TEETH OF A LION, AND HE HATH THE CHEEK-...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This verse countenanceth their conjecture who take the locusts and vermin to be emblematical in part as well as literal; for it seems not very suitable to call their teeth _teeth of a lion_. FOR A NAT...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:6 nation H1471 up H5927 (H8804) land H776 Strong H6099 number H4557 teeth H8127 teeth H8127 lion...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Awake, ye drunkards, and weep._ THE INSENSIBILITY AND MISERY OF THE DRUNKARD The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtaken...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:6 Locusts are compared to a NATION, powerful as a great army. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2 contain the spirited introduction. OLD MEN] are called upon to note the unus...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 9:3; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 8:8; Joel 2:2; Joel 2:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A nation — An innumerable multitude of locusts and caterpillars, called a nation here, as Solomon calls the conies and the ant, Proverbs 30:25, and perhaps a prognostick of a very numerous and mighty...

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