The seed is rotten under the clods - Not only was all to be cut off for the present, but, with it, all hope for the future. The sca…

The corn is withered.— The results of the terrible drought, coincident with the ravages of the locusts, are now described…

He repeats the same thing as before, for he reproaches the Jews for being so slow to consider that the hand of God was against them. Has not th…

The seed is rotten under their clods Or "grains" ^F26 of wheat or barley, which had been sown, and, for want of…

The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confe ed and lam…