“He has laid my vine waste,and stripped my fig tree.He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.Its branches are made white.”
Joel 1:7 (WEB)
Context Reading
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine,for it is cut off from your mouth. 6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.His teeth are the teeth of a lion,and he has the fangs of a lioness. 7He has laid my vine waste,and stripped my fig tree.He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.Its branches are made white. 8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackclothfor the husband of her youth! 9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.