Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
barked--BOCHART, with the Septuagint and Syriac, translates, from an Arabic root, "hath broken," namely, the topmost shoots, which locusts most feed on. CALVIN supports English Version.
my vine . . . my fig tree--being in "My land," that is, Jehovah's (Joel 1:6). As to the vine-abounding nature of ancient Palestine, see Numbers 13:23-24.
cast it away--down to the ground.
branches . . . white--both from the bark being stripped off (Genesis 30:37), and from the branches drying up through the trunk, both bark and wood being eaten up below by the locusts.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 8:13
Revelation 9:12
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