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The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.
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Feeling Without Understanding
John Calvin argues that the prophet's detailed description of the ruined land is meant to shock a spiritually numb audience. The people felt the physical pain of hunger in their stomachs, but they failed to connect it to its divine cause in their hearts. They mourned the lack of food like animals, without understanding that their sin was the root of the judgment.
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Joel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The field is wasted, the land mourneth - As, when God pours out His blessings of nature, all nature seems to smile and be glad, and as the P…
19th Century
Anglican
The new wine.— The necessaries and delights of life are all gone: the wine that makes glad the heart of man, the oil that make…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues here with the same subject and uses so many words to give more impact to what he said. He knew that he was addressing those w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The field is wasted by the locust, that ate up all green things, the grass and herbs, the fruit and leaves of trees; and …
All who labour only for the meat that perishes will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights …
