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Joel 1:16

Joel 1:16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?.... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a matter out of all question, they could not but see it with their eyes; it was a plain case, and not…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joel 1:14-20

We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Joel 1:16-20

In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by…