Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 1:10

10 The field is wasted , the land mourneth , for the corn is wasted : the new wine is dryed up , the oyl languisheth .

The soil that was wont to be fat and fruitful, and did shout with fruits, now lyeth waste, horrid to look upon, and such as promises no fruit, the famine in their houses, and the ceasing of the Sacrifices in the house of God, is like to be perpetuated.

The inhabitants of the Land by an usual figure, here called the Land.

The Wheat and Barley, their bread corn is eaten up in its greenness by these devouring locusts, whether in the letter by vermine, or in the figure by the Babylonians.

The word may as well be rendered is ashamed, or confounded, 'tis then a figurative expression, which this Prophet useth, verse 12.17. in the last of which 'tis rendered, withered, if you retain as well you may, our Version, it plainly tells us, the heats and drought with them was so great, that the Vines were withered, and all their hopes of new wine by this means cut off.

The Olive-Trees as the Vines fade too, and promise very little Oyl.

Neither able to send sap from the root to maintain its verdure, nor to put forth berries, or to bring them to maturity. Now as these words declare what barrenness was now upon the land; so 'tis a plain account of the reason why the Priests are called to mourn, and why the meat-offering and drink-offering are [illegible: 1 word] off, these must cease when that ceaseth, which made them up Corn, Wine and Oyl.

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