Habakkuk 3:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

The fig-tree

Haggai 2:16

General references

Luke 1:46

Bible References

The fig-tree

And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep, to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee today, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.

Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished.

I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places: yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.

since these things were: when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the pressfat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

General references

Tzaddi The troubles of my heart are enlarged; O bring thou me out of my distresses.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.

And gladness is taken away and joy out of the fertile field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be rejoicing: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage song to cease.

Neither shall it be of any value unto Egypt, any work which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Then Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,