Joel 1:10

10 Los campos están arruinados,
la tierra quedó desnuda.
El grano está destruido,
las uvas se secaron
y se acabó el aceite de oliva.

Joel 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:10

The field is wasted
By the locust, that eat up all green things, the grass and herbs, the fruit and leaves of trees; and also by the Chaldeans trampling on it with their horses, and the increase of which became fodder for them: the land mourneth;
being destitute, nothing growing upon it, and so looked dismally, and of a horrid aspect; or the inhabitants of it, for want of provision: for the corn is wasted;
by the locusts, and so by the Assyrian or Chaldean army, before it came to perfection: the new wine is dried up:
in the grape, through the drought after mentioned: or, "is ashamed" ^F18; not answering the expectations of men, who saw it in the cluster, promising much, but failed: the oil languisheth;
or "sickens" ^F19; the olive trees withered; the olives fell off, as the Targum, and so the oil failed: the corn, wine, and oil, are particularly mentioned, not only as being the chief support of human life, as Kimchi observes, and so the loss of them must be matter of lamentation to the people in general; but because of these the meat and drink offerings were, and therefore the priests in particular had reason to mourn.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (vybwh) "erubuit", Tigurine version, Mercer, Liveleus; "puduit", Drusius, Tarnovius; "pudefit", Cocceius.
F19 (llma) "infirmatum est", Montanus. So some in Vatablus.

Joel 1:10 In-Context

8 Lloren como una recién casada vestida de luto,
quien llora la muerte de su esposo.

9 Pues no hay grano ni vino
para ofrecer en el templo del Señor
.
Por eso los sacerdotes están de luto;
los ministros del Señor
están llorando.

10 Los campos están arruinados,
la tierra quedó desnuda.
El grano está destruido,
las uvas se secaron
y se acabó el aceite de oliva.

11 ¡Laméntense, ustedes, agricultores!
¡Giman, ustedes que cultivan vides!
Lloren porque el trigo y la cebada
—todos los cultivos del campo— están arruinados.

12 Se secaron las vides
y se marchitaron las higueras.
Los granados, las palmeras y los manzanos
—todos los árboles frutales— se secaron.
Y la alegría de la gente se marchitó con ellos.