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 broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
Deuteronomy 29:23
Pitch and burning salt, all its land; it shall not be sown, and it shall not sprout, and no green herb shall come up upon it, as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
Joel 1:19
To thee, O Jehovah, will I call: for a fire consumed the habitations of the desert, and the flame burned all the trees of the field.
The plowmen
Joel 1:11
The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished.
General references
Haggai 1:10
For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce.