The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
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Gill's Exposition
The vine is dried up,.... Withered away, stripped of its leaves and fruits, and its sap and moisture gone: or, "is ashamed" (t); to see itself in this condition, and not answer the expectation of its…
Barnes' Notes
Because joy is withered away - o: “There are four sorts of joy, a joy in iniquity, a joy in vanity, a joy of charity, a joy of felicity. Of the first we read, “Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in…
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
is dried up Better, sheweth shame, as Joe 1:1.
the pomegranate Num 13:23; Num 20:5; Deu 8:8; 1Sa 14:2; Hag 2:19; Son 4:3; Son 4:13; Son 6:7; Son 6:11; Son 7:12; Son 8:2. A tree abundant in Palestine,…
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