Joel 1

1 Joel, declaring sundry judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,

8 and to mourn.

14 He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments.

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This ..... message <01697> [word.]

Joel <03100> [to.]

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Listen <08085> [Hear.]

elders <02205> [ye old.]

life ..... lifetime <03117> [Hath.]

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[That which the palmer-worm hath left. Heb. The residue of the palmer-worm.]

The learned Bochart, and others, are of the opinion that the four Hebrew words, {gazam, yelek, arbeh, chasil}, respectively rendered the palmer-worm, locust, canker-worm and caterpillar, denote four different species of locusts. See on .# Ex 10:4

consumed .... arbeh-locust ..... consumed ......... consumed <0398 0697> [the locust eaten.]

[the canker-worm eaten.]

[the caterpillar.]

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Wake up <06974> [Awake.]

weep <01058> [weep.]

taken away <03772> [for.]

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nation <01471> [nation.]

land <0776> [my.]

teeth .... those <08127> [whose.]

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destroyed <07760> [laid.]

fig trees .... splinters <08384 07111> [barked my fig-tree. Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking.]

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Wail <0421> [Lament.]

husband-to-be <01167> [the husband.]

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grain offerings <04503> [meat.]

priests <03548> [the priests.]

Lord .......... Lord <03068> [the Lord's.]

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fields <07704> [field.]

wine <08492> [the new.]

dried up <03001> [dried up. or, ashamed.]

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<03001> [ashamed.]

harvest <07105> [because.]

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vine <01612> [The vine.]

Dr. Shaw observes, that in Barbary, in the month of June the locusts are no sooner hatched than they collect themselves into compact bodies, each a "furlong or more square; and marching directly after they are come to life, make their way towards the sea and let nothing escape them, eating up everything that is green or juicy; not only the lesser vegetables, but the vine likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field."

pomegranate <07416> [the pomegranate.]

joy <08342> [joy.]

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dressed <02296> [Gird.]

minister ............ servants <08334> [ye ministers.]

spend <03885> [lie.]

minister ............ servants <08334> [ye ministers.]

grain offerings <04503> [for.]

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holy <06942> [Sanctify.]

sacred assembly <06116> [solemn assembly. or, day of restraint.]

elders <02205> [the elders.]

cry out <02199> [cry.]

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awful <0162> [Alas.]

day ...... day .... Lord <03117 03068> [the day of.]

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food <0400> [the meat.]

joy <08057> [joy.]

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grains of seed <06507> [seed. Heb. grains.]

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call out <07121> [to thee.]

fire <0784> [the fire.]

pastures <04999> [pastures. or habitations.]

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cry out <06165> [cry.]

river beds <0650> [the rivers.]