Joel 1:12 KJV
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 field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Matthew Henry
- All sorts of people are called to lament itAll 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,...
Thompson Chains
- Fig-treesSee the chain from Judges 9:10 · 11 links
- PomegranatesSee the chain from Exodus 28:33 · 7 links
- Palm-treesSee the chain from Exodus 15:27 · 4 links
- Joy DepartedSee the chain from Isaiah 24:11 · 7 links
Cross References
- Isaiah 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
- Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- Numbers 13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Psalms 4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
- Psalms 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Song of Solomon 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
- Song of Solomon 7:7–9 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. …
- Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
- Jeremiah 48:3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
- Jeremiah 48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Hosea 9:1–2 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. …
- Joel 1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Habakkuk 3:17–18 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: …
- Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities National lessons from
- Apple A fruit
- Joel Declares the terribleness of God’s judgments
- Nation Chastised
Strong’s Numbers
- The vine גֶּפֶן gephen
- is dried up יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh
- and the fig tree תְּאֵן tᵉʼên
- languisheth אָמַל ʼâmal
- the pomegranate רִמּוֹן rimmôwn
- tree, the palm tree תָּמָר tâmâr
- also, and the apple tree תַּפּוּחַ tappûwach
- all the trees עֵץ ʻêts
- of the field שָׂדֶה sâdeh
- are withered יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh
- because joy שָׂשׂוֹן sâsôwn
- is withered away יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh
- from the sons בֵּן bên
- of men אָדָם ʼâdâm
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