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

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
They sit on the ground in mourning,
And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

The field is ruined,

The land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil fails.

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

General references

The troubles of my heart are enlarged;

Bring me out of my distresses.

When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;

In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,
No treader treads out wine in the presses,
For I have made the shouting to cease.

There will be no work for Egypt

Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

And Mary said:
“My soul

exalts the Lord,