The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 198
198. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 1
1-3 To all who are of the church. (2)
4 Falsity from the sensual man and afterwards evil therefrom has consumed all things of the church. (2, 15)
5-7 Let them repent, for evil from the sensual man has destroyed the different things of the church. (2)
8-13 Mourning over the destruction of the goods and truths of the church. (2)
14 Exhortation to be converted, (2)
15 and to reflect that thus will be the last time, when the Lord will come, (1)
16-17 and that everything of the church has been devastated; (3)
Joel 1:8-13
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 Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
10
The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
11
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
12
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
