Joel 1:2

La invasión de langostas

2 ¡Oigan esto, ancianos del pueblo!¡Presten atención, habitantes todos del país!¿Alguna vez sucedió cosa semejanteen sus tiempos o en los de sus antepasados?

Joel 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:2

Hear this, ye old men
What the prophet was about to relate, concerning the consumption of the fruits of the earth, by various sorts of creatures, and by a drought; and these are called upon to declare if ever the like had been known or heard of by them; who by reason of age had the greatest opportunities of knowledge of this sort, and could remember what they had heard or seen, and would faithfully relate it: this maybe understood of elders in office, as well as in age; and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land;
or "earth", not of the whole earth; but of the land of Judea; who were more particularly concerned in this affair, and therefore are required to listen attentively to it: hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
that is, not the selfsame thing, but anything equal to it; a judgment of the same kind and nature, and of the same degree. By this question it seems the like had never been in the memory of any man living; nor in former times, in the days of their ancestors, as could be averted upon report; or attested on the credit of annals, chronicles, or other methods of conveying the history of ages past. As for the plague of locusts in Egypt, though they were such as; never find been, nor would be there any more; yet such or greater, and more in number than those, might be in Judea; besides, they continued but a few, lays at most, these four years successively, as Kimchi observes; and who thinks that in Egypt there was but one sort of locusts, here four; but the passage he quotes in ( Psalms 78:46 ) ; contradicts him; to which may be added ( Psalms 105:34 ) .

Joel 1:2 In-Context

1 Esta es la palabra del SEÑOR, que vino a Joel hijo de Petuel.
2 ¡Oigan esto, ancianos del pueblo!¡Presten atención, habitantes todos del país!¿Alguna vez sucedió cosa semejanteen sus tiempos o en los de sus antepasados?
3 Cuéntenselo a sus hijos,y que ellos se lo cuenten a los suyos,y estos a la siguiente generación.
4 Lo que dejaron las langostas grandeslo devoraron las langostas pequeñas;lo que dejaron las langostas pequeñasse lo comieron las larvas;y lo que dejaron las larvasse lo comieron las orugas.
5 ¡Despierten, borrachos, y lloren!Giman, todos los entregados al vino,porque el vino dulce les fue arrebatado de los labios.
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