Joel 1:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He, that nation of locusts, Joel 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. And barked my fig tree; peeled off the bark. which is certain destruction to the tree. Made it clean bare; eat off all the rind and green bark, and left the body of both vine and fig tree bare and stripped. And cast it away; as vermin cast out of their mouth the chewings of what they spoil, so here. The branches thereof, 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.

Joel 1:7

7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barkedb my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.