The Meaning of Joel 1:19 Explained

Joel 1:19

KJV: O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

YLT: Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I do call, For fire hath consumed comely places of a wilderness, And a flame hath set on fire all trees of the field.

Darby: To thee, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned up all the trees of the field.

ASV: O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Discover Joel 1:19

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Joel 1:19?

MEANING: What does Joel 1:19 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Joel 1:19 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Joel 1:19?

What is the context of Joel 1:19?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

What does Joel 1:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Joel 1:1-20 - A Summons To Penitence

We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory of God's loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man's boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world-empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to lay waste the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession. There are days in national experience when it becomes us to gird ourselves and lament. The ministers and elders of the Church should lead the way. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the wanton world, then joy withers away, Joel 1:12, spiritual worship ceases, Joel 1:9, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return. [source]

Chapter Summary: Joel 1

¹ Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,
⁸ and to mourn
¹⁴ He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments

What do the individual words in Joel 1:19 mean?

To You Yahweh I cry out for fire has devoured the pastures open and a flame has burned all the trees of the field

אֵלֶ֥יךָ יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א כִּ֣י אֵ֗שׁ אָֽכְלָה֙ נְא֣וֹת מִדְבָּ֔ר וְלֶ֣הָבָ֔ה לִהֲטָ֖ה כָּל־ עֲצֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶֽה

אֵלֶ֥יךָ	To You
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine singular Root: אֶל Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
יְהוָ֖ה	Yahweh
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
אֶקְרָ֑א	I cry out
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular Root: קָרָא Sense: to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim.
אֵ֗שׁ	fire
Parse: Noun, common singular Root: אֵשׁ Sense: fire.
אָֽכְלָה֙	has devoured
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular Root: אָכַל Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
נְא֣וֹת	the pastures
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct Root: נָוָה Sense: .
מִדְבָּ֔ר	open
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: מִדְבָּר Sense: wilderness.
וְלֶ֣הָבָ֔ה	and a flame
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular Root: לֶהָבָה Sense: flame.
לִהֲטָ֖ה	has burned
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person feminine singular Root: לָהַט Sense: to burn, blaze, scorch, kindle, blaze up, flame.
עֲצֵ֥י	the trees
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: עֵץ Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
הַשָּׂדֶֽה	of the field
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: שָׂדֶה Sense: field, land.

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