Joel 1:1-7

1:1

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

Joel <03100> [to.]

1:2

Listen <08085> [Hear.]

elders <02205> [ye old.]

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

1:3

1:4

[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.]

1:5

Wake up <06974> [Awake.]

weep <01058> [weep.]

taken away <03772> [for.]

1:6

nation <01471> [nation.]

land <0776> [my.]

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

1:7

destroyed <07760> [laid.]

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