Joel 1:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² »The vine and the fig tree fail. The pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field have dried up. Joy has withered away from the sons of men.

²³ At Eshcol Valley they cut off a branch with only one bunch of grapes on it. They carried it on a pole between two of them. They also brought some pomegranates and figs.

⁷ You will put gladness (joy) in my heart. It will be more than when their grain and new wine abound.

¹² Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.

³ (The Shulamite) »Just like the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.«

¹³ »Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with ointment,

¹⁰ Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards. No one sings or shouts in the vineyards! No one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.

⁷ »Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters of dates. ⁸ »I said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs. Also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples.’ ⁹ »The roof of your mouth is like the best wine for my beloved.’« (The Shulamite) »The wine goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

³ You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy. They rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder.

¹¹ In the streets they cry out for wine. Joy turns to gloom and rejoicing is banished from the earth.

³ »The people of Horonaim cry out: »Violence! Destruction!«

³³ »‘Joy and gladness are taken from the fruitful orchards and fields and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the wine presses. No one walks on the grapes with shouts of joy. There are shouts, but they are not shouts of joy.

¹ »O Israel, do not rejoice. Do not celebrate as pagan nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor. ² »There will not be enough grain to feed people. There will not be enough wine to go around.

¹⁰ »The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails.

¹⁶ »Is not the food consumed before our eyes? Is joy and gladness removed from the House of our God?

¹⁷ The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁹ »There is no grain left. The grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced. However from now on I will bless you.«