Joel 1:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. ”

Joel 1:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The field is wasted, the land mourneth - As, when God pours out His blessings of nature, all nature seems to smile and be glad, and as the Psalmist says, “to shout for joy and sing” Psalms 65:13...
Joel 1:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: (g) the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. (g) All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.
Joel 1:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Distress Caused by the Plague. Joel 1:5-7 . The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are...
Joel 1:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet goes on here with the same subject, and uses these many words to give more effect to what he said; for he knew that he addressed the deaf, who, by long habit, had so hardened themse...
Joel 1:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Joel 1:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. The field is wasted, the land mourneth - differing in that "field" х saadeh...
Joel 1:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Coming of the Locusts a Harbinger of the Day of the Lord After the title ( Joel 1:1 ), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts ( Joel 1:2-4 ), an...
Joel 1:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The new wine. — The necessaries and delights of life are all gone: “the wine that maketh glad the heart of man, the oil that makes his face to shine, the bread that strengthened man’s heart” ( Psal...
Joel 1:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
Joel 1:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. Th...
Joel 1:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible l...
Joel 1:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...
Joel 1:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The field is wasted ,.... By the locust, that eat up all green things, the grass and herbs, the fruit and leaves of trees; and also by the Chaldeans trampling on it with their horses, and the increa...
Joel 1:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Ver. 10. The field is wasted, the land mourneth ] The sacrifices are not only cut off...
Joel 1:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The meat-offering and the drink-offering These offerings always accompanied the daily sacrifice: see Numbers 28:4 ; Numbers 28:7 . The word here and elsewhere translated meat-offering , properly...
Joel 1:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for...
Joel 1:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The field is wasted; the soil that was wont to be fat and fruitful, and did shout with fruits, now lieth waste, horrid to look upon, and such as promises no fruit; the famine in their houses, and t...
Joel 1:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Description of the Plague And Its Consequences ( Joel 1:6-18 ). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences...
Joel 1:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 1:8 . A virgin ] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her beloved taken away by a stroke ( Ez...
Joel 1:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:1 . Joel, the son of Pethuel. Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presume...
Joel 1:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the Lord. The worship of God sadly neglected throug...
Joel 1:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the...
Joel 1:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of the Calamity
Joel 1:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Haggai 1:11 ; Hosea 4:3 ; Hosea 9:2 ; Isaiah 24:11 ; Isaiah 24:3 ; Isaiah 24:4 ; Jeremiah 12:11 ; Jeremiah 12:4 ; Jeremiah 14:2-6 ; Jeremiah 48:33 ; Joel 1:12 ; Joel 1:17-20 ; Joel 1:5 ;...
Joel 1:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The corn — The wheat and barley, is eaten up in its greenness. Dried up — The drought was so great, that the vines were withered, and all their hopes of new wine cut off. The oil — The olive — tree...

Joel 1:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Joel 1:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 1:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes