seed: Heb.
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Joel 1:17
Joel 1:17
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into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God.…Joel 1:17Joel 1:17 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe seed is rotten under their clods,.... Or "grains" of wheat or barley, which had been sown, and, for want of rain, putrefied and wasted away under the clods of earth, through the great drought; so that what with…