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Joel 1:19

O Lord, to Thee will I cry; for the fire, the parching heat, hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, of the great Judean steppes, and the flame, the fierce heat of the drought, hath burned all the trees of the field.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joel 1:19. _O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY_] Let this calamity come as it may, _we have sinned_, and should humble ourselves before God; and it is such a calamity as God alone can remove, therefore...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY - This is the only hope left, and contains all hopes. From the Lord was the infliction; in Him is the healing. The prophet appeals to God by His own Name, the faithful Fulfi...

  • 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

    TO THEE WILL. CRY. Compare Psalms 50:15. THE FIRE. Compare Joel 2:3. WILDERNESS. common land....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Unto thee, O_ JEHOVAH, _do I cry_ the prophet, speaking (as Joel 1:6_; Joel 1:13_) in the nation's name, turns for help to Jehovah, who "saveth men and cattle" (Psalms 36:6). _fire_ either fig. of th...

  • 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...

  • 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

    FOR THE FIRE HATH DEVOURED, &C.— By _the fire,_ is meant the fiery heat and drought which burned up all the pastures or pleasant places, both in the wilderness and in the valleys....

  • 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

    O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY. Joel here interposes. Since...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRE.. FLAME] figurative of the drought....

  • 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

    THE FIRE HATH DEVOURED. — This may be explained as produced by the scorching heat bringing about spontaneous combustion, or by the efforts of the people to exterminate the locusts by burning the trees...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵלֶ֥יךָ יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א כִּ֣י אֵ֗שׁ אָֽכְלָה֙...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Places. Hebrew, "dwellings," or shepherds' huts. --- Wilderness, denoting all pasture land unploughed._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here comes in to our relief the blessedness of that gospel, which under the conviction of sin, and a total inability to help ourselves, leads to Christ. For I hope, I need not point out to the Reader,...

  • 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

    When the Prophet saw that he succeeded less than he expected, leaving the people, he speaks of what he would do himself, _I will cry to thee, Jehovah. _He had before bidden others to cry, and why does...

  • 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

    O LORD, TO THEE WILL I CRY,.... Or pray, as the Targum; with great vehemency and earnestness, commiserating the case of man and beast: these are the words of the prophet, resolving to use his interest...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. Ver. 19. _O Lord, to thee will I cry_] I will, though othe...

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

    _O Lord, to thee will I cry_ The prophet carries on the beautiful hypotyposis, (or description of the calamity, painted in such strong and bright colours as rendered it, as it were, present before the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PASTURES: Or, habitations...

  • 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

    O LORD, Maker and Preserver of these poor famished cattle, TO THEE WILL I CRY: either it is the prophet's prayer he maketh, or a form prescribed for the priests. THE FIRE; the immoderate heats, or els...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:19 LORD H3068 out H7121 (H8799) fire H784 devoured H398 (H8804) open H4057 pastures H4999 flame...

  • 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

    _O Lord, to Thee will I cry._ ADDING PRAYERS TO COMPLAINTS Turn thy complaint into prayer, or else it is but a murmuring against God. It is by prayer we make our sorrowful hearts known to God. The r...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:19 TO YOU, O LORD, I CALL. The devastation brought by the Lord can be relieved only by him. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:19.] Beasts cry to God, but man hears not; the prophet is touched and cries for the impenitent. TO THEE] beasts even lift their heads in dumb appeal, and to thee I cry, for tho...

  • 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

    Amos 7:4; Habakkuk 3:17; Habakkuk 3:18; Jeremiah 9:10; Joel 2:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The fire — The immoderate heats. The wilderness — The world, only means places not ploughed, and less inhabited than others....

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