Discovery BoxLeviticus 26:20
Context26:20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land 1 will not produce their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:39-42
Context28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 2 28:41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity. 28:42 Whirring locusts 3 will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
Isaiah 5:4-6
Context5:4 What more can I do for my vineyard
beyond what I have already done?
When I waited for it to produce edible grapes,
why did it produce sour ones instead?
5:5 Now I will inform you
what I am about to do to my vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, 4
I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. 5
5:6 I will make it a wasteland;
no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, 6
and thorns and briers will grow there.
I will order the clouds
not to drop any rain on it.
Isaiah 5:10
Context5:10 Indeed, a large vineyard 7 will produce just a few gallons, 8
and enough seed to yield several bushels 9 will produce less than a bushel.” 10
Hosea 2:8-9
Context2:8 Yet 11 until now 12 she has refused to acknowledge 13 that I 14 was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who 15 lavished on her the silver and gold –
which they 16 used in worshiping Baal! 17
2:9 Therefore, I will take back 18 my grain during the harvest time 19
and my new wine when it ripens; 20
I will take away my wool and my flax
which I had provided 21 in order to clothe her. 22
Joel 1:7
Context1:7 They 23 have destroyed our 24 vines; 25
they have turned our 26 fig trees into mere splinters.
They have completely stripped off the bark 27 and thrown them aside;
the 28 twigs are stripped bare. 29
Joel 1:10-12
Context1:10 The crops of the fields 30 have been destroyed. 31
The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.
The fresh wine has dried up;
the olive oil languishes.
1:11 Be distressed, 32 farmers;
wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley.
For the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12 The vine has dried up;
the fig tree languishes –
the pomegranate, date, and apple 33 as well.
In fact, 34 all the trees of the field have dried up.
Indeed, the joy of the people 35 has dried up!
Habakkuk 3:17
Context3:17 When 36 the fig tree does not bud,
and there are no grapes on the vines;
when the olive trees do not produce, 37
and the fields yield no crops; 38
when the sheep disappear 39 from the pen,
and there are no cattle in the stalls,
Haggai 1:11
Context1:11 Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’” 40
Haggai 2:17
Context2:17 I struck all the products of your labor 41 with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ 42 says the Lord.
Matthew 21:19
Context21:19 After noticing a fig tree 43 by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.
Luke 13:6-9
Context13:6 Then 44 Jesus 45 told this parable: “A man had a fig tree 46 planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 13:7 So 47 he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For 48 three years 49 now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it 50 I find none. Cut 51 it down! Why 52 should it continue to deplete 53 the soil?’ 13:8 But the worker 54 answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer 55 on it. 13:9 Then if 56 it bears fruit next year, 57 very well, 58 but if 59 not, you can cut it down.’”
[26:20] 1 tn Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. Tg. Onq., some medieval Hebrew
[28:40] 2 tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.
[28:42] 3 tn The Hebrew term denotes some sort of buzzing or whirring insect; some have understood this to be a type of locust (KJV, NIV, CEV), but other insects have also been suggested: “buzzing insects” (NAB); “the cricket” (NASB); “the cicada” (NRSV).
[5:5] 4 tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”
[5:5] 5 tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).
[5:6] 6 tn Heb “it will not be pruned or hoed” (so NASB); ASV and NRSV both similar.
[5:10] 7 tn Heb “a ten-yoke vineyard.” The Hebrew term צֶמֶד (tsemed, “yoke”) is here a unit of square measure. Apparently a ten-yoke vineyard covered the same amount of land it would take ten teams of oxen to plow in a certain period of time. The exact size is unknown.
[5:10] 8 tn Heb “one bath.” A bath was a liquid measure. Estimates of its modern equivalent range from approximately six to twelve gallons.
[5:10] 9 tn Heb “a homer.” A homer was a dry measure, the exact size of which is debated. Cf. NCV “ten bushels”; CEV “five bushels.”
[5:10] 10 tn Heb “an ephah.” An ephah was a dry measure; there were ten ephahs in a homer. So this verse envisions major crop failure, where only one-tenth of the anticipated harvest is realized.
[2:8] 11 tn Or “For” (so KJV, NASB); or “But” (so NCV).
[2:8] 12 tn The phrase “until now” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
[2:8] 13 tn Heb “she does not know” (so NASB, NCV); or “she does not acknowledge.”
[2:8] 14 tn The 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun אָנֹכִי (’anokhi, “I”) is emphatic, since the subject of this verbal clause is already explicit in the verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, Qal perfect 1st person common singular: “I gave”).
[2:8] 15 tn The phrase “that it was I who” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.
[2:8] 16 sn The third person plural here is an obvious reference to the Israelites who had been unfaithful to the
[2:8] 17 tn Heb “for Baal” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); cf. TEV “in the worship of Baal.”
[2:9] 18 tn Heb “I will return and I will take.” The two verbs joined with vav conjunction form a verbal hendiadys in which the first verb functions adverbially and the second retains its full verbal sense (GKC 386-87 §120.d, h): אָשׁוּב וְלָקַחְתִּי (’ashuv vÿlaqakhti) means “I will take back.”
[2:9] 19 tn Heb “in its time” (so NAB, NRSV).
[2:9] 20 tn Heb “in its season” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).
[2:9] 21 tn The words “which I had provided” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; cf. NIV “intended to cover.”
[2:9] 22 tn Heb “to cover her nakedness” (so KJV and many other English versions); TEV “for clothing.”
[1:7] 23 tn Heb “it.” Throughout vv. 6-7 the Hebrew uses singular forms to describe the locust swarm, but the translation uses plural forms because several details of the text make more sense in English as if they are describing the appearance and effects of individual locusts.
[1:7] 25 tn Both “vines” and “fig trees” are singular in the Hebrew text, but are regarded as collective singulars.
[1:7] 27 tn Heb “it has completely stripped her.”
[1:10] 30 tn Heb “the field has been utterly destroyed.” The term “field,” a collective singular for “fields,” is a metonymy for crops produced by the fields.
[1:10] 31 tn Joel uses intentionally alliterative language in the phrases שֻׁדַּד שָׂדֶה (shuddad sadeh, “the field is destroyed”) and אֲבְלָה אֲדָמָה (’avlah ’adamah, “the ground is in mourning”).
[1:11] 32 tn Heb “embarrassed”; or “be ashamed.”
[1:12] 33 tn This Hebrew word וְתַפּוּחַ (vÿtappuakh) probably refers to the apple tree (so most English versions), but other suggestions that scholars have offered include the apricot, citron, or quince.
[1:12] 34 tn These words are not in the Hebrew text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
[1:12] 35 tn Heb “the sons of man.”
[3:17] 37 tn Heb “the produce of the olive disappoints.”
[3:17] 39 tn Or “are cut off.”
[1:11] 40 tn Heb “all the labor of hands” (similar KJV, NASB, NIV); cf. NAB “all that is produced by hand.”
[2:17] 41 tn Heb “you, all the work of your hands”; NRSV “you and all the products of your toil”; NIV “all the work of your hands.”
[2:17] 42 tn Heb “and there was not with you.” The context favors the idea that the harvests were so poor that the people took care of only themselves, leaving no offering for the
[21:19] 43 tn Grk “one fig tree.”
[13:6] 44 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[13:6] 45 tn Grk “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:6] 46 sn The fig tree is a variation on the picture of a vine as representing the nation; see Isa 5:1-7.
[13:7] 47 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the man’s response as a result of the lack of figs in the preceding clause.
[13:7] 48 tn Grk “Behold, for.”
[13:7] 49 sn The elapsed time could be six years total since planting, since often a fig was given three years before one even started to look for fruit. The point in any case is that enough time had been given to expect fruit.
[13:7] 50 tn The phrase “each time I inspect it” is not in the Greek text but has been supplied to indicate the customary nature of the man’s search for fruit.
[13:7] 51 tc ‡ Several witnesses (Ì75 A L Θ Ψ 070 Ë13 33 579 892 al lat co) have “therefore” (οὖν, oun) here. This conjunction has the effect of strengthening the logical connection with the preceding statement but also of reducing the rhetorical power and urgency of the imperative. In light of the slightly greater internal probability of adding a conjunction to an otherwise asyndetic sentence, as well as significant external support for the omission (א B D W Ë1 Ï), the shorter reading appears to be more likely as the original wording here. NA27 puts the conjunction in brackets, indicating some doubts as to its authenticity.
[13:7] 52 tn Grk “Why indeed.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
[13:7] 53 sn Such fig trees would deplete the soil, robbing it of nutrients needed by other trees and plants.
[13:8] 54 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the worker who tended the vineyard) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:8] 55 tn Grk “toss manure [on it].” This is a reference to manure used as fertilizer.
[13:9] 56 tn This is a third class condition in the Greek text. The conjunction καί (kai, a component of κάν [kan]) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[13:9] 57 tn Grk “the coming [season].”
[13:9] 58 tn The phrase “very well” is supplied in the translation to complete the elided idea, but its absence is telling.
[13:9] 59 tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text, showing which of the options is assumed.
