Joel 1:16-18 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?… This is the first new stroke of pathos which the poet adds to his previous description; but mark how he multiplies stroke on stroke. As though it were not enough to lose all mirth in the passing day, the heart of the people is torn with apprehension for the future. The very grain in the earth has "rotted under the clods," so that there is no prospect of a crop in the coming year to compensate for the loss of this year's harvest. Smitten by the burning rays of the sun, denied the vivifying touch of dew or rain, the germ has withered in the seed. The husbandmen, hopeless of any reward for their toils, fold their hands in indolent despair; they suffer their garners to moulder away, their "barns" to fall. Why should they repair barn and storehouse when the "corn is withered," even the seed-corn? (Samel Cox, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?WEB: Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? |
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