Joel 1:6

Joel 1:6

4 ^aWhat the chewing¹ locust left, the ^bswarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you ^adrunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
^bFor it has been cut off from your mouth.

6 For ^aa nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^bHis teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a¹ fierce lion.

7 He has ^alaid waste My vine,
And¹ ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

8 ^aLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^bthe husband of her youth.

9 ^aThe grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^bmourn, who minister to the Lord.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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nation—applied to the locusts, rather than "people" (Proverbs 30:25-26), to mark not only their numbers, but also their savage hostility; and also to prepare the mind of the hearer for the transition to the figurative locusts in the second chapter, namely, the "nation" or Gentile foe coming against Judea (compare Joel 2:2).

my land—that is, Jehovah's; which never would have been so devastated were I not pleased to inflict punishment (Joel 2:18; Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 16:18; Ezekiel 36:5; Ezekiel 38:16).

strong—as irresistibly sweeping away before its compact body the fruits of man's industry.

without number—so Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12, "like grasshoppers (or "locusts") for multitude" (Jeremiah 46:23; Nahum 3:15).

teeth . . . lion—that is, the locusts are as destructive as a lion; there is no vegetation that can resist their bite (compare Revelation 9:8). PLINY says "they gnaw even the doors of houses."

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