The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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Gill's Exposition
The field is wasted,.... By the locust, that eat up all green things, the grass and herbs, the fruit and leaves of trees; and also by the Chaldeans trampling on it with their horses, and the increase…
Barnes' Notes
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 Psalmist says, “to shout for joy and sing” Psa 65:13, so when…
The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the…
Cambridge Bible
the ground mourneth the country being personified, as Isa 33:9; Jer 12:4; Jer 12:11; Jer 23:10; cf. on Amo 1:2. Conversely, at harvest time, when the fruits of the earth are abundant, "the vales shout…
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