Yoël 1:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kepada-Mu, ya TUHAN, aku berseru, sebab api telah memakan habis tanah gembalaan di padang gurun, dan nyala api telah menghanguskan segala pohon di padang.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kepada-Mu, ya TUHAN, aku berseru, sebab api telah memakan habis tanah gembalaan di padang gurun, dan nyala api telah menghanguskan segala pohon di padang.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Kepada-Mu juga, ya Tuhan! berserulah aku; karena api sudah makan habis akan segala kandang kambing yang di gurun, dan nyala apipun sudah menyalakan segala pohon kayu yang di padang.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Proclayme a fast, call a congregation, gather the elders together, [with] all the inhabitauntes of the lande vnto the house of the Lorde your God, and crye vnto the Lorde, ¹⁵ Alas for this day, for the day of the Lorde is at hande, euen as a destruction from the almightie shall it come. ¹⁶ Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, [yea] mirth and ioy from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered. ¹⁸ O howe cattell mourne? the heardes of beastes are in wofull case for lacke of pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed? ¹⁹ Unto thee O Lorde wyll I crye, for feare hath destroyed the fruitfull places of the desert, and the flambe hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde. ²⁰ The beastes also of the fielde crye out vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dryed vp, and fire hath deuoured vp the fruitfull places of the desert.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to thee: Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Micah 7:7, Habakkuk 3:17, Habakkuk 3:18, Luke 18:1, Luke 18:7, Philippians 4:6, Philippians 4:7

the fire: Joel 2:3, Jeremiah 9:10, Amos 7:4

pastures: or habitations

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 14:4 - the ground Joel 2:22 - for the pastures

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, to thee will I cry,.... Or pray, as the Targum; with great vehemency and earnestness, commiserating the case of man and beast: these are the words of the prophet, resolving to use his interest at the through of grace in this time of distress, whatever others did:

for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness; or, "of the plain" c though in the wildernesses of Judea, there were pastures for cattle: Kimchi interprets them of the shepherds' tents or cotes, as the word d is sometimes used; which were will not to be pitched where there were pastures for their flocks: and so the Targum renders it, "the habitations of the wilderness"; these, whether pastures or habitations, or both, were destroyed by fire, the pastures by the locusts, as Kimchi; which, as Pliny e says, by touching burn the trees, herbs, and fruits of the earth; see Joel 2:3; or by the Assyrians or Chaldeans, who by fire and sword consumed all in their way; or by a dry burning blasting wind, as Lyra; and so the Targum interprets it of a strong east wind like fire: it seems rather to design extreme heat and excessive drought, which burn up all the produce of the earth:

and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field; which may be understood of flashes of lightning, which are common in times of great heat and drought; see Psalms 83:14.

c מדבר "non tantum desertum significat sed et campum sativum", Oecolampadius. "A place of pasture for cattle", Ben Melech. d נאות "caulas", Piscator. So Ben Melech. e Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord, to Thee will I cry - This is the only hope left, and contains all hopes. From the Lord was the infliction; in Him is the healing. The prophet appeals to God by His own Name, the faithful Fulfiller of His promises, Him who Is, and who had promised to hear all who call upon Him. Let others call to their idols, if they would, or remain stupid and forgetful, the prophet would cry unto God, and that earnestly.

For the fire hath devoured the pastures - The gnawing of locusts leaves things, as though scorched by fire (see the note at Joel 2:3); the sun and the east wind scorch up all green things, as though it had been the actual contact of fire. Spontaneous combustion frequently follows. The Chaldees wasted all before them with fire and sword. All these and the like calamities are included under “the fire,” whose desolating is without remedy. What has been scorched by fire never recovers . “The famine,” it is said of Mosul, “was generally caused by fire spreading in dry weather over pastures, grass lands, and grain lands, many miles in extent. It burnt night and day often for a week and sometimes embraced the whole horizon.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joel 1:19. O Lord, to thee will I cry — Let this calamity come as it may, we have sinned, and should humble ourselves before God; and it is such a calamity as God alone can remove, therefore unto him must we cry.

The fire hath devoured the pastures — This may either refer to a drought, or to the effects of the locusts; as the ground, after they have passed over it, everywhere appears as if a sheet of flame had not only scorched, but consumed every thing.