Thematic Bible
Joel 1:1 (show verse)
The word of LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joel 1:2 (show verse)
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
No Themes for this verse.
Joel 1:3 (show verse)
Tell ye your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.
Joel 1:4 (show verse)
That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.
Agriculture » Foes of » Locusts
Agriculture » Foes of » Caterpillars
Agriculture » Foes of » Palmerworm
Animals » Instruments of God's will
Cankerworm » Sent as a judgment
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Fig tree » The jews punished by » Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by locusts
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm
Locusts » Devastation by
Locusts » The jews » Often plagued by
Palmerworm » Foe of agriculture
Seed » The jews punished by » Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c
Agriculture » Foes of » Caterpillars
Agriculture » Foes of » Palmerworm
Animals » Instruments of God's will
Cankerworm » Sent as a judgment
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Fig tree » The jews punished by » Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by locusts
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Cankerworm
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Palmerworm
Locusts » Devastation by
Locusts » The jews » Often plagued by
Palmerworm » Foe of agriculture
Seed » The jews punished by » Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c
Joel 1:5 (show verse)
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:6 (show verse)
For a nation has come up upon my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
Joel 1:7 (show verse)
He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches of it are made white.
Joel 1:8 (show verse)
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:9 (show verse)
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of LORD. The priests, LORD's ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:10 (show verse)
The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
Joel 1:11 (show verse)
Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished.
Agriculture » Products of » Barley
Agriculture » Fruits blasted because of sin
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Grain » Barley
Harvest » Failure of » A cause of great grief
Agriculture » Fruits blasted because of sin
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Grain » Barley
Harvest » Failure of » A cause of great grief
Joel 1:12 (show verse)
The vine is withered, and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Apple » Fruit
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Fig tree » The jews punished by » Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c
natural Fruit » Varieties of » Apples
Fruits » Often destroyed » By blight
Palm trees » Blasted as a punishment
Pomegranate-trees » The blasting of, a great calamity
Trees » Varieties » Palm
Trees » Varieties » Apple
Trees » Varieties » Pomegranate
The vine » Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Fig tree » The jews punished by » Barking and eating of, by locusts, &c
natural Fruit » Varieties of » Apples
Fruits » Often destroyed » By blight
Palm trees » Blasted as a punishment
Pomegranate-trees » The blasting of, a great calamity
Trees » Varieties » Palm
Trees » Varieties » Apple
Trees » Varieties » Pomegranate
The vine » Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment
Joel 1:13 (show verse)
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G
Drink offering » Omission of, caused by bad vintage
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Meat offerings » The jews » Often prevented from offering, by judgments
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
Famine » Caused » Grief and mourning
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Meat offerings » The jews » Often prevented from offering, by judgments
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
Joel 1:14 (show verse)
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD.
Joel 1:15 (show verse)
Alas for the day! For the day of LORD is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
No Themes for this verse.
Joel 1:16 (show verse)
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
No Themes for this verse.
Joel 1:17 (show verse)
The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.
Joel 1:18 (show verse)
How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Joel 1:19 (show verse)
O LORD, to thee do I cry. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:20 (show verse)
Yea, the beasts of the field pant to thee, for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.