Joel 1

Joel 1:1-7

(2) Calls besotted drunkards, and all ranks, sharing of its sad effects, to consider and bewail it; 5, 8—13. (3) Calls them to solemn fastug, on account of that famine and drought which the prophet and the very beasts already bewailed; 14—20. • Is. 1. 1. & 2.

1. Jer. 1. 1. Ezek. 1. 1. &c. 2 Pet. 1.
2. 2 Tim. 3.
3. • Ps. 49. 1. &
5. Jer. 22. 29. Ps. 28. 5. & 64

Joel 1:19

Exod. 13. 14. • Deut. 28. 38. ch. 2. 2—11. Amos 4. 9. & 7. 1. • Heb. Thereside of the palmer worm. Luke 21. 34. Rph. 5. 11. 1. 32. 9—11. & 24. 7—11. & 3. 24. • Prov. 16. 26. Eccl. 6. 7. • Prov. 30. 25 —27. ch. 2. 2. 11. 25. • Ps. 107. 34. Hos. 9. 3. Is. 6. 8. • Arch. 21. 8. THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethucl. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4 That which the palmer worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker worm eaten; and that which the canker worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine; because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 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. Before Christ clr. 790, or 720. 8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the “husband of her youth. + Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking. Is. 22. 12. ver. 13, 14, 15. ch. 2. 12— 17. Is. 32. 9— 12. 9 The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; “the priests the LORD’s ministers mourn. 10 “The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is ‡dried up, the oil languish-eth. Zeph. 3. 18. ver. 14, 16. ch. 2. 14. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husband-men; howl, O ye vine dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. Lev. 10. 6. & 21. 1—3. ver. 13. ch. 2. 17. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. ver. 11, 12, 17—20. Lev. 26. 19, 20. Deut. 28. 23, 24. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye “ministers of the altar: come, lie ‘all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: ‘for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God. Or ashamed. Is. 9. 3. Jer. 14. 1—4. Anus 4. 6—9. & 7. 1, 4. Deut. 28. 22 —24. Lev. 28. 19, 20. Is. 17. 11. & 32. 10 —12. Is. 9. 3. & 16. 10. Ps. 4. 7. Jer. 16. 33. ver. 16. Ver. 8, 9. Chr. 9. 33. & 37. 1. ver. 9. ch. 2. 14. 1 Sam. 4. 28

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. I.—God’s judgments and mercies ought to be carefully observed and remembered. Nor need we wonder if he deprive us of the mercies which we have sinfully abused, or make even the weakest insects the victorious instruments of his wrath. It is hard to part with created comforts, once idolized. But certain is their shame who labour only for perishing provision; and sad their sorrow at last who place all their happiness in the delights of sense! Alas, how wide-spread is the havoc made by men’s sin! And it is a lamentable case when poverty disqualifies for the public service of God. National judgments call for national humiliation and importunate prayers. And in the way of our duty we may hope that God will meet us in mercy. But hardened must that heart be which trembles not when God’s judgments are every where before our eyes; and the very animals around us bewail the disaster. Yet God’s ministers must be deeply affected themselves, even though they cannot affect their hearers