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
I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze.
Deuteronomy 28:23
The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron.
Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.
Joel 1:19
To you, LORD, I cry out, because fire has devoured the open pastures, and has set all the cultivated trees ablaze.

The plowmen

Joel 1:11
Be dismayed, you farmers! Cry aloud, you vintners, for the wheat and barley, because the harvest in your fields has been lost.

General references

Haggai 1:10
That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.

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