Treasury of Scripture
The vine. Dr. Shaw observes, that in Barbary, in the month of June the locusts are no sooner hatched than they collect themselves into compact bodies, each a furlong or more square; and marching directly after they are come to life, make their way towards the sea and let nothing escape them, eating up everything that is green or juicy; not only the lesser vegetables, but the vine likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
Habakkuk 3:17,18 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail...
the pomegranate.
Numbers 13:23 And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes...
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight...
Songs 4:13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Songs 7:7-9 This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes...
joy.
Joel 1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Psalm 4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Isaiah 9:3 You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest...
Isaiah 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing...
Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Jeremiah 48:3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Hosea 9:1,2 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God...
