Verse 12
The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
Referenced Verses
- Isa 16:10 : 10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.
- Isa 24:11 : 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
- Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Joel 1:10 : 10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
- Joel 1:16 : 16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
- Hab 3:17-18 : 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: 18 Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
- Hag 2:19 : 19 Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
- Num 13:23 : 23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.
- Ps 4:7 : 7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
- Ps 92:12 : 12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
- Song 4:13 : 13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
- Song 7:7-9 : 7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. 8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples; 9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
- Isa 9:3 : 3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
- Jer 48:3 : 3 There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;
- Jer 48:33 : 33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
- Hos 9:1-2 : 1 Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor. 2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.