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 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
Deuteronomy 29:23
the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath--
Joel 1:19
To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
The plowmen
Joel 1:11
Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
General references
Haggai 1:10
Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.