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. Treasury of Scripture laid. Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree... Exodus 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land... Psalm 105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and broke the trees of their coasts. Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there shall come up briers and thorns... Isaiah 24:7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh. Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, said the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade... Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me... Habakkuk 3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail... barked my fig-tree. Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking.
Context The Invasion of Locusts
1The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3Tell you your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten. 5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6For a nation is come up on my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7He 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. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Darby Bible Translation
He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
King James Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
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