Joel 1:7
jHe hath laid my vine waste, and 2*barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
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Isaiah 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
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Heb. laid my fig tree for a barking.
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barked-stripped of bark.
that nation of locusts, Joe 1:6, both literally and mystically understood, hath laid my vine waste; made it a desolation, i.e. most desolate, which is more particularly declared in what followeth.
peeled off the bark. which is certain destruction to the tree.
eat off all the rind and green bark, and left the body of both vine and fig tree bare and stripped.
as vermin cast out of their mouth the chewings of what they spoil, so here.
all the branches of both vine and fig tree, are by these devouring vermin made white, all their green being eaten off; so miserably desolate will the enemy signified by these locusts make Judah, God’s vine.