laid: Joel 1:12; Exodus 10:15; Psalms 105:33; Isaiah 5:6, Isaiah 24:7; Jeremiah 8:13; Hosea 2:12; Habakkuk 3:17
barked my fig tree: Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking
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Joel 1:7
Joel 1:7
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