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Verse 8. _LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN - FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH._]
_Virgin_ is a very improper _version_ here. The original is בתולה
_bethulah_, which signifies a _young woman_ or _bride_ not a _virgin...
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LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN - The prophet addresses the congregation of
Israel, as one espoused to God ; “‘Lament thou,’ daughter of
Zion,” or the like. He bids her lament, with the bitterest of
sorrows, as...
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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...
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The land is bidden to mourn as bitterly as a maiden mourning her
betrothed, dead ere the marriage day. For most terrible consequence of
the famine caused by the locusts no corn, wine, or oil can be ha...
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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...
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LAMENT. Feminine. agreeing with "land", Joel 1:6....
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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...
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_Lament_ The verb is fem in the Hebrew, the community, personified as
a woman, the "daughter of Judah," or "daughter of my people," being
addressed. So often in the prophets: comp. on Amos 5:2. The wo...
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Interruption of the public services of the Temple....
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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,...
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_A CALL TO REPENTANCE -- JOEL 1:8-13:_ The nation of Judah would
suffer severe anguish. The farmers planted and tended his crops but it
was all in vain. The crops were destroyed by the locust and by t...
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LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN— _A young woman._ Houbigant. These words are an
apostrophe to the land of Judah; the prophet puts her in mind, that
she ought to be deeply affected with the heavy strokes of divin...
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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...
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
youth.
LAMENT - O "my land" (Joel 1:6; Isaiah 24:4).
LIKE A VIRGIN GIRDED WITH SACKCLOTH FOR THE HUSBAND. A virgin
betrothed was...
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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...
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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...
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FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH. — The land is addressed as a virgin
betrothed, but not yet married, and forfeiting her marriage by
unworthy conduct. Such was the relation of Israel to the Lord: He was
f...
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אֱלִ֕י כִּ בְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת ־שַׂ֖ק
עַל ־בַּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Youth, whom she espoused first. Such are more tenderly loved,
particularly where polygamy prevails. (Calmet) --- So Dido speaks of
Sichæus, Virgil, \'c6neid iv.: Ille meos primus qui se mihi junxit
a...
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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...
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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...
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The Prophet now addresses the whole land. _Lament_, he says; not in an
ordinary way, but like a widow, whose husband is dead, whom she had
married when young. The love, we know, of a young man towards...
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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...
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LAMENT LIKE A VIRGIN,.... This is not the continuation of the
prophet's speech to the drunkards; but, as Aben Ezra observes, he
either speaks to himself, or to the land the Targum supplies it, O
congr...
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
youth.
Ver. 8. _Lament like a virgin_] Our prophet hath done with his
drunkards; and now applieth himself to the soberer sort, whom a...
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_Lament_, &c. The prophet here calls upon the inhabitants of Judea to
deprecate this grievous judgment, by humiliation and unfeigned sorrow
for their sins; _like a virgin for the husband of her youth_...
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Lament like a virgin, girded with sackcloth, the dress of mourning,
FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH, whom, after their betrothal, death took
away. The grief of a bereaved virgin and bride is represented...
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY...
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8-13 All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or
later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in
the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed...
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The vicious and wicked among the Jews were alarmed and threatened in
the former part of the chapter; now the prophet bespeaks the good and
godly among them to prepare for mournful times. LAMENT: this...
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Joel 1:8 Lament H421 (H8798) virgin H1330 girded H2296 (H8803)
sackcloth H8242 husband H1167 youth H5271
Lamen
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
youth._
The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of
the Lord.
THE WORSHIP OF GOD SADLY NEGLECTED THROUGH...
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_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...
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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...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:8 BRIDEGROOM OF HER YOUTH. The people are called
to grieve as deeply as a betrothed VIRGIN whose promised husband dies
before they are married....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 1:8. A VIRGIN] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow
and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her
beloved taken away by a stroke (Ezekiel 16:...
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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...
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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....
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Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 32:11; James 4:8; James 4:9;...
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The husband of her youth — Espoused to her, but snatched away by an
untimely death....