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Joel 1:18

How do the beasts groan! since the meadows also were dried up. The herds of cattle are perplexed, the word being chosen to denote the restless hunting of hungry cattle, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate, bearing their sufferings as a consequence of the transgressions of the people of the land. All this causes the prophet to lift up his voice to the Lord in a cry for help.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joel 1:18. _HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN!_] I really think that the _neighing_ of horses, or _braying_ of asses, is wonderfully expressed by the sound of the original: מה נאנחה בהמה _mah NEENCHAH_ _b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN! - There is something very pitiable in the cry of the brute creation, even because they are innocent, yet bear man’s guilt. Their groaning seems to the prophet to be beyond exp...

  • 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

    A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE BEASTS, Compare nos. Joe 4:3...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by t...

  • 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

    The distress of the cattle through lack of pasture (cf. Jeremiah 14:5-6). _are perplexed_ wandering hither and thither in quest of food [33]. [33] LXX. for מה נאנחה בהמה express מַה־נַּנִּחָה בָהֵמּ...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _CRYING UNTO THE LORD -- JOEL 1:18-20:_ The devastation was great in the land. Joel wrote, "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN!— That is, "How grievous will be the distress of the beasts of the field! How sadly will they complain, through the vehemency of thirst! How will the herds of cattle be trouble...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. THE HERDS OF CATTLE ARE PERPLEXED - implying the restless gest...

  • 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

    HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN. — All creation is represented as sharing in the dread perplexity; the beasts are involved in it, as also in Nineveh the animals were united in the proclamation of the general...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֨כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...

  • 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

    The Prophet amplifies his reproof, that even oxen as well as other animals felt the judgment of God. There is then here an implied comparison between the feeling of brute animals and the insensibility...

  • 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

    HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN?.... For want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the locusts; or devoured, or trampled upon, and destroyed, by the Chaldeans; and also for want of water to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate._ Ver. 18. _How do the beasts groan_] The wild beasts groan in th...

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

    _How do the beasts groan!_ “How grievous will be the distress of the beasts of the field! How sadly will they complain through the vehemency of thirst! How will the herds of cattle be troubled and per...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HOW DO THE BEASTS GROAN? so great was the penury and want of sustenance, that the beasts in the field, pinched with hunger, groaned, made dismal noise for fodder and water; the word _beasts_ is genera...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:18 animals H929 groan H584 (H8737) herds H5739 cattle H1241 restless H943 (H8738) pasture H4829 flocks...

  • 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

    _Is not the meat cut off before our eyes._ SIN A GREAT DEPRIVATION I. That sin deprives man of his cherished hope. “Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?” 1. This deprivation was unexpected. The...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:18 THE FLOCKS OF SHEEP SUFFER. Creation suffers because of Israel’s guilt. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:16.] Food cut off, the joy of festivals and sacrifices banished. JOEL 1:17. SEED] decayed under the clods. GARNERS] Storehouses went to ruin and prospects of future harvest w...

  • 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

    1 Kings 18:5; Hosea 4:3; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 14:5; Jeremiah 14:6;...

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