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The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:15

The day of the Lord. This phrase is peculiarly Joel's, and it is apparently used by him in different senses. Of these we notice three. I. THE DAY OF THE LORD IS A DAY OF CALAMITY AND RETRIBUTION . This is plain from its further designation as a day of destruction, and from the prefatory exclamation "Alas]" with which it is introduced. Superstition, no doubt, has often misinterpreted the calamities of human life; yet it would be insensibility and spiritual... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:16-18

These verses contain manifest proofs that the day of the Lord was coming, and coming as a destruction from the Almighty. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? The food for daily sustenance, and the food for Divine service—the corn and wine and oil, as mentioned in Joel 1:10 —had vanished while they beheld the process of destruction, but could not binder it. "These locusts," says Thomson, in 'The Land and the Book,' "at once strip the vines of every leaf and cluster of grapes, and of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:17-18

The desolation of the land. Whether actually and literally by a plague of locusts, or by a hostile incursion such as a plague of this kind might well typify, Judah was overrun, afflicted, and cursed. The picture is one of unrelieved gloom and misery. I. THE PUNITIVE JUDGMENTS OF GOD REACH MEN THROUGH THE CROPS OF THE FIELD , AND THE HERDS AND FLOCKS OF THE PASTURE . The necessaries of life, the constituents of wealth, are in the hand of God. He... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

O Lord, to thee will I cry . In consideration of man and beast—creatures rational and irrational being subject to so much hardship and suffering—the prophet appeals in intense earnestness of spirit to God, and all the more so because of the encouragement of his own Word, as it is written, "Lord, thou preservest man and beast." For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field . The fire and flame here referred to denote the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

Trouble leads to prayer. When Scripture depicts human misery and destitution, it does not leave the matter, as though there were nothing further to say. Always a way of escape is pointed out; always a gleam of light is let in upon the darkness; always a remedy is offered for the disease whose symptoms are described. I. THE CRY TO WHICH TROUBLE LEADS IS A CRY OF CONFESSION . God has not afflicted the greatest sufferer beyond his deserts. The distressed soul gives... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

The influence of national calamities on the minds of the good. "O Lord, to thee will I cry," etc. In the verses extending from the sixth to the eighteenth, the prophet described with great vividness and force the attributes of these "locusts" and the terrible devastations they would effect, and he called upon various members of the community to attend to the calamity. The old men and the young people, the drunkards and the farmers, the priests and the laity, all are summoned to reflection,... read more

Albert Barnes

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

The word of the Lord that came to Joel - Joel, like Hosea, mentions the name of his father only, and then is silent about his extraction, his tribe, his family. He leaves even the time when he lived, to be guessed at. He would be known only, as the instrument of God. “The word of the Lord came to” him (see the note at Hosea 1:1), and he willed simply to be the voice which uttered it. He was “content to live under the eyes of God, and, as to people, to be known only in what concerned their... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:2

Hear this, ye old men - By reason of their age they had known and heard much; they had heard from their fathers, and their father’s fathers, much which they had not known themselves. Among the people of the east, memories of past times were handed down from generation to generation, for periods, which to us would seem incredible. Israel was commanded, so to transmit the vivid memories of the miracles of God. The prophet appeals “to the old men, to hear,” and, (lest, anything should seem to have... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:3

Tell ye your children of it - In the order of God’s goodness, generation was to declare to generation the wonders of His love. “He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children that they might ... not forget the works of God” Psalms 78:5-7. This tradition of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:4

That which the palmerworm hath left, hath the locust eaten - The creatures here spoken of are different kinds of locusts, so named from their number or voracity. We, who are free from this scourge of God, know them only by the generic name of locusts. But the law mentions several sorts of locusts, each after its kind, which might be eaten . In fact, above eighty different kinds of locusts have been observed , some of which are twice as large as that which is the ordinary scourge of God . Slight... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:17-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Joel 1:19-20

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joel 1:4

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