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Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.
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A Deeper Spiritual Famine
Commentators see a powerful spiritual allegory in this verse. The ashamed farmers and wailing vinedressers can represent spiritual leaders (pastors, teachers) who grieve when their labor bears no spiritual fruit—when souls are not saved and the church is not growing. The physical famine points to a deeper spiritual drought, a loss of God's blessing and the Spirit's work among His people.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Be ashamed, O you farmers — The prophet dwells on and expands the description of the troubles that he had foretold, setting before …
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet says nothing new here but only strengthens what he had said before, and he is not wordy without reason, as he intends here not merely t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen Tillers of the land, who have taken a great deal of pains in cultivating the earth,…
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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 …
