Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
The plowmen
General references
Bible References
The ground
Leviticus 26:19
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
Joel 1:19
O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.
The plowmen
Joel 1:11
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
General references
Haggai 1:10
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.