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It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/joel/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />It has destroyed my grapevines and ruined my fig trees, stripping their bark and destroying it, leaving the branches white and bare.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/joel/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/joel/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast <i>it</i> away; the branches thereof are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/joel/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />He has laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown <i>it</i> away; Its branches are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/joel/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree a stump. It has stripped them bare and hurled <i>them</i> away; Their branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/joel/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/joel/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />It has made my vine a waste, And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast <i>them</i> away; Their branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/joel/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />It has made my vine a desolation And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast <i>them</i> away; Their branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/joel/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />It has made My vine (My people) a waste <i>and</i> object of horror, And splintered <i>and</i> broken My fig tree. It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away; Their branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/joel/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />It has devastated my grapevine and splintered my fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/joel/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />It has devastated My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joel/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/joel/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our grapevines and fig trees are stripped bare; only naked branches remain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joel/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/joel/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They destroyed my grapevines. They ruined my fig trees. They stripped off what they could eat, threw the rest away, and left the branches bare.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/joel/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/joel/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/joel/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/joel/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They have destroyed our vines; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; the twigs are stripped bare. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/joel/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joel/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joel/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/joel/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />It has made My vine become a desolation, "" And My fig tree become a splinter, "" It has made it thoroughly bare, and has cast down, "" Its branches have been made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joel/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> It hath made my vine become a desolation, And my fig-tree become a chip, It hath made it thoroughly bare, and hath cast down, Made white have been its branches.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/joel/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joel/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/joel/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />He has put my vineyard into desolation, and he has pulled off the bark of my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches have become white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/joel/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />It has stripped bare my vines, splintered my fig tree, Shearing off its bark and throwing it away, until its branches turn white. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/joel/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches have turned white.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/joel/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />He has laid my vine waste, and has cut off my fig tree and thrown it away; the branches thereof are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/joel/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />It made my vine into a desolation and my fig tree into a ruin; it has torn it down and has cast it away and its branches are white<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/joel/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />He hath laid my vine waste, And blasted my fig-tree; He hath made it clean bare, and cast it down, The branches thereof are made white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/joel/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched <i>my vine</i>, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/joel/1-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oEU9eLLsIkI?start=62" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">The Invasion of Locusts</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: śām (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">It has laid</a> <a href="/hebrew/8047.htm" title="8047: lə·šam·māh (Prep-l:: N-fs) -- Waste, horror. From shamem; ruin; by implication, consternation.">waste</a> <a href="/hebrew/1612.htm" title="1612: gap̄·nî (N-csc:: 1cs) -- A vine. From an unused root meaning to bend; a vine, especially the grape.">My grapevine</a> <a href="/hebrew/7111.htm" title="7111: liq·ṣā·p̄āh (Prep-l:: N-fs) -- Snapping, splintering. From qatsaph; a fragment.">and splintered</a> <a href="/hebrew/8384.htm" title="8384: ū·ṯə·’ê·nā·ṯî (Conj-w:: N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Fig tree. Or t:enah; perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig.">My fig tree.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2834.htm" title="2834: ḥā·śōp̄ (V-Qal-InfAbs) -- To strip off, strip, make bare. A primitive root; to strip off, i.e. Generally to make naked, to drain away or bail up.">It has stripped off the bark</a> <a href="/hebrew/2834.htm" title="2834: ḥă·śā·p̄āh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms:: 3fs) -- To strip off, strip, make bare. A primitive root; to strip off, i.e. Generally to make naked, to drain away or bail up."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7993.htm" title="7993: wə·hiš·lîḵ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To throw, fling, cast. A primitive root; to throw out, down or away.">and thrown it away;</a> <a href="/hebrew/8299.htm" title="8299: śā·rî·ḡe·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Tendril, twig. From sarag; a tendril.">the branches</a> <a href="/hebrew/3835.htm" title="3835: hil·bî·nū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To be, white, to make bricks. A primitive root; to be white; also to make bricks.">have turned white.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></span><br />I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-10.htm">Jeremiah 5:10</a></span><br />Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9</a></span><br />“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7</a></span><br />The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-2.htm">Lamentations 2:2</a></span><br />Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6-8</a></span><br />Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem. / And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD. / Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a></span><br />I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/9-4.htm">Revelation 9:4</a></span><br />They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-39.htm">Deuteronomy 28:39</a></span><br />You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/16-10.htm">Isaiah 16:10</a></span><br />Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm">Jeremiah 8:13</a></span><br />I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a></span><br />Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/17-6.htm">Isaiah 17:6</a></span><br />Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/habakkuk/3-17.htm">Habakkuk 3:17</a></span><br />Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bore, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.</p><p class="hdg">laid.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Joel 1:12</a></b></br> The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, <i>even</i> all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/10-15.htm">Exodus 10:15</a></b></br> For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/105-33.htm">Psalm 105:33</a></b></br> He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.</p><p class="hdg">barked my fig-tree.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-10.htm">Bark</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Blasted</a> <a href="/hosea/14-6.htm">Branches</a> <a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/hosea/14-5.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/daniel/12-10.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/hosea/12-1.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/hosea/14-8.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-7.htm">Splintered</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Splinters</a> <a href="/daniel/7-12.htm">Stripped</a> <a href="/hosea/14-7.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/daniel/8-11.htm">Thrown</a> <a href="/hosea/14-8.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/hosea/14-7.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/daniel/12-10.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/micah/1-6.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/genesis/30-37.htm">Bark</a> <a href="/genesis/41-6.htm">Blasted</a> <a href="/jonah/4-5.htm">Branches</a> <a href="/joel/1-17.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/joel/3-3.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/amos/7-2.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/joel/2-3.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/joel/2-1.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">Splintered</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Splinters</a> <a href="/amos/7-2.htm">Stripped</a> <a href="/amos/1-3.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/micah/5-11.htm">Thrown</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/nahum/2-2.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-8.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">Joel 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-1.htm">Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm">and to mourn.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm">He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In this context, the destruction of the grapevine signifies a severe judgment upon the nation. The imagery of laying waste suggests total devastation, indicating that the people have turned away from God, resulting in divine retribution. This aligns with other scriptural references where Israel is depicted as a vineyard, such as in <a href="/isaiah/5.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7</a>, where God laments over the unfruitfulness of His vineyard.<p><b>and splintered My fig tree.</b><br>The fig tree is another symbol of Israel, often representing prosperity and peace. The splintering of the fig tree suggests a violent and thorough destruction, indicating the severity of the judgment. In the New Testament, Jesus curses a barren fig tree (<a href="/mark/11-12.htm">Mark 11:12-14</a>), symbolizing the spiritual barrenness of Israel. The fig tree's destruction in Joel underscores the theme of judgment due to unfaithfulness and the need for repentance.<p><b>It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away;</b><br>Stripping off the bark signifies a complete stripping away of protection and vitality, leaving the tree vulnerable and exposed. This can be seen as a metaphor for the removal of God's protection over Israel due to their disobedience. The act of throwing it away suggests a disregard for what was once valuable, highlighting the consequences of turning away from God. This imagery is reminiscent of the stripping away of blessings and protection when the covenant is broken, as seen in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>.<p><b>the branches have turned white.</b><br>The branches turning white indicates death and desolation, as the life-giving sap is no longer present. This can symbolize the spiritual death that results from sin and separation from God. The whiteness of the branches may also suggest a form of leprosy, a condition often associated with sin and impurity in biblical times. This imagery serves as a stark warning of the consequences of unrepentant sin, urging the people to return to God for restoration and healing.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/joel.htm">Joel</a></b><br>The prophet who authored the book, delivering God's message to the people of Judah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, the primary audience of Joel's prophecy.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_locust_plague.htm">The Locust Plague</a></b><br>A devastating event symbolizing judgment and destruction, often interpreted as a literal plague or a metaphor for invading armies.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_vine_and_fig_tree.htm">The Vine and Fig Tree</a></b><br>Symbolic representations of Israel's prosperity and spiritual state.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The speaker in the verse, expressing His judgment and lament over the destruction.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_the_vine_and_fig_tree.htm">Symbolism of the Vine and Fig Tree</a></b><br>The vine and fig tree are often used in Scripture to symbolize Israel's spiritual health and prosperity. Their destruction signifies a severe spiritual decline and the consequences of turning away from God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_sin.htm">Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>The stripping of the vine and fig tree's bark represents the stripping away of blessings and protection due to sin and disobedience. It serves as a warning to remain faithful to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The vivid imagery of destruction is a call to repentance. Just as the people of Judah were urged to turn back to God, we too must examine our lives and repent of anything that separates us from Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>The passage reminds us of God's sovereignty and His right to judge His people. It encourages us to trust in His righteous judgment and seek His mercy.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_for_restoration.htm">Hope for Restoration</a></b><br>While the imagery is bleak, it also points to the possibility of restoration. God’s judgments are often followed by promises of renewal for those who repent and return to Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_joel_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Joel 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/am_i_assured_of_my_salvation.htm">What does 'No One Knows the Day or Hour' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_joel_1_10-12's_devastation_exaggerated.htm">Is the total devastation of crops and vines in Joel 1:10-12 consistent with known environmental events, or does it seem exaggerated when compared to historical data on locust plagues?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_curse_the_fig_tree_out_of_season.htm">Why did Jesus curse the fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season (Mark 11:12-14)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_nudism_acceptable_for_christians.htm">Can Christians acceptably practice nudism?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joel/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">My vine.</span>--This expression might well captivate the Jewish ear. God appropriates to Himself this land on which the trouble was, by His providence, to fall, and in wrath remembers mercy. It is "my vine," "my fig-tree," the people of God's own choice, that were afflicted; and the affliction, however fully deserved, was, to speak as a man, painful to the Lord, "who doth not afflict willingly." Yet the devastation was to be complete. God's pleasant vine was doomed, and the fig-tree was to be cut down.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joel/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree</span> (margin, <span class="accented">laid my</span> <span class="accented">fig tree for a barking</span>): <span class="cmt_word">he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white</span>. We have here a detailed description of the destruction and devastation caused by this locust-army in its invasion of the land of Judah. The most valuable and most valued production of that land, the vine and fig tree, are ruined. The vine is laid waste, so that the vineyard becomes a wilderness: <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> "he has barked the fig tree" (so Jerome, "Ficum meam decorticavit"); or rather, <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> "he has broken the branches." The word <span class="hebrew">קְצָפָח</span> denotes a fragment or something broken, branches broken off, and so the LXX., "hath utterly broken (<span class="greek">εἰς συγκλασμόν</span>);" while <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> Aben Ezra explains it, "Like foam on the face of the water, in which there is nothing;" <span class="accented">i.e.</span> a thing of nought. The locusts, by gnawing, had stripped off the bark, or by their excessive weight had broken off the branches. The next clause, which speaks of <span class="accented">making it clean bare</span>, is explained by the Chaldee of peeling off the bark, but that, according to the first rendering, has been already expressed. It is rather more than this - it is stripping off the leaves and fruits or flowers; the barked or broken branches and twigs of vine and fig tree are then cast away or down to the ground. And all that is left are the whitened branches from which the bark has been stripped off. The casting away or down to the earth may refer to the bark; thus Kimchi: "He removes the bark; and so Jonathan explains, 'He quite removes the bark and casts it away;' and the explanation is that he casts the bark to the earth when he eats the juicy parts between the bark and the wood; or the explanation may be that he eats the rind and casts the vine blossom to the earth, and, lo, it is bared." Some, again, understand it of what is uneatable, and others of the vine itself. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/joel/1-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">It has laid</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂ֤ם</span> <span class="translit">(śām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> </span><span class="str2">Put -- to put, place, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">waste</span><br /><span class="heb">לְשַׁמָּ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·šam·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8047.htm">Strong's 8047: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ruin, consternation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My grapevine</span><br /><span class="heb">גַּפְנִי֙</span> <span class="translit">(gap̄·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1612.htm">Strong's 1612: </a> </span><span class="str2">A vine, the grape</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and splintered</span><br /><span class="heb">לִקְצָפָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(liq·ṣā·p̄āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7111.htm">Strong's 7111: </a> </span><span class="str2">Snapping, splintering</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My fig tree.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ṯə·’ê·nā·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8384.htm">Strong's 8384: </a> </span><span class="str2">Of foreign derivation, the fig</span><br /><br /><span class="word">It has stripped off the bark</span><br /><span class="heb">חָשֹׂ֤ף</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·śōp̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2834.htm">Strong's 2834: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strip off, to make naked, to drain away, bail up</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and thrown it away;</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hiš·lîḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7993.htm">Strong's 7993: </a> </span><span class="str2">To throw out, down, away</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the branches</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(śā·rî·ḡe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8299.htm">Strong's 8299: </a> </span><span class="str2">Tendril, twig</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have turned white.</span><br /><span class="heb">הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hil·bî·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3835.htm">Strong's 3835: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, white, to make bricks</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/joel/1-7.htm">OT Prophets: Joel 1:7 He has laid my vine waste (Jl Joe.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/joel/1-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joel 1:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joel 1:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joel 1:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joel 1:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>