Joel 1:19 (YLT)

Passage

Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I do call, For fire hath consumed comely places of a wilderness, And a flame hath set on fire all trees of the field.

Nearby Context

Joel 1:17 Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

Joel 1:18 How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

Joel 1:19 Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I do call, For fire hath consumed comely places of a wilderness, And a flame hath set on fire all trees of the field.

Joel 1:20 Also the cattle of the field long for Thee, For dried up have been streams of water, And fire hath consumed comely places of a wilderness!'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thee", "jehovah", "call", "fire", "hath", "consumed", "comely", and "places". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thee" and "jehovah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 18's "How have cattle sighed Perplexed have been..." into verse 20's "Also the cattle of the field long...", so "thee" and "jehovah" belong inside that flow. In Joel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thee" and "jehovah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.