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Joel 1:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. "

Joel 1:7

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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

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Hosea 2:12

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"I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them."

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"Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."

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Jeremiah 2:21

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"Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?"

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Isaiah 5:5

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"Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down."

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Job 15:33

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"He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree."

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Luke 13:7

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"He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’"

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Joel 1:1

"The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel."

Joel 1:2

"Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?"

Joel 1:3

"Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation."

Joel 1:4

"What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten."

Joel 1:5

"Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth."

Joel 1:6

"For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness."

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