Joel 1:7
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Cross-references
In Joel 1:12, the same vineyard and fig tree devastation continues, lamenting that joy has dried up along with the harvest.
In Exodus 10:15, locusts cover the land and eat every green thing — mirroring the complete stripping of vine and fig tree here.
In Psalm 105:33, God strikes Egypt's vines and fig trees during the plagues — a historical precedent for the judgment described here.
In Isaiah 5:6, God turns the vineyard into a wasteland — a parallel image of divine judgment leaving the vine ruined.
In Jeremiah 8:13, God declares no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig tree — nearly identical language to this devastation.
In Hosea 2:12, God destroys vines and fig trees as punishment for idolatry — the same covenantal judgment motif as here.
Malachi 3:11 promises God will rebuke the devourer to protect vines, directly opposite to the destruction in Joel.
In Habakkuk 3:17, the vine and fig tree also fail, but the prophet responds with faith — a contrasting response to the lament here.
In Isaiah 24:7, the vine languishes and new wine fails — another prophetic lament over agricultural desolation.
Isaiah 32:10 similarly describes the failure of vintage and fruit harvest as judgment, echoing the agricultural devastation of vines in Joel.