Joel 1

^{1 !} A prophicie against the Jewes.

^{2 !} He exhorteth the people to prayer, and fasting for the miserie that was at hand.

^{2 a} Signifying, the Princes, the Priests, and the gouerners.

^{2 b} He calleth the Jewes to the consideration of Gods judgements, who had now plagued the frutes of the grounde of the space of foure yere, which was for their sinnes, & to call them to repentance.

^{5 c} Meaning, that the occasion of their excesse and drunkennes was taken away.

^{6 d} This was another plague wherewith God had punished them when he stirred vp the Assyrians against them.

^{8 e} Mourne grieuously as a woman, which hathe lost her housband, to whome she hathe bene maried in her youth.

^{9 f} The tokens of Gods wrath did appeare in his Temple in so muche as Gods seruice was left of.

^{10 g} All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.

^{13 h} He sheweth that the only meanes to auoide Gods wrath, & to haue all things restored is vnfained repentance.

^{15 i} We se by these great plagues that vtter destruction is at hand.

^{20 k} That is, drought.