 | Thomas Hughes - 1923 - 428 pages
...be not in the winter, or on the Sabbath." 2 There are those who suffer from famine and pestilence. "The fig-tree shall not blossom; and there shall be...herd in the stalls. But I will rejoice in the Lord"; who reassures us with His promises. He says: "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee,... | |
 | Bible - 1924 - 440 pages
...fig tree shall not flourish, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fall, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:" etc. Compare with this, "An Early Version of the... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1997 - 194 pages
..."Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vine; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will joy... | |
 | Andrew P. Scheil - Antisemitism in literature - 2004 - 392 pages
...on Habacuc. The verse in question obviously brings this tradition of the sterile tree to mind: "For the fig-tree shall not blossom: and there shall be...olive-tree shall fail; and the fields shall yield no food" (Habacuc 3:17).26 Again, the image here is one of potential: these traditional biblical signs of bounteous... | |
 | Menashe Har-El - Jerusalem - 2004 - 388 pages
...though the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls." The "fields of Kidron" seem to have been in the... | |
 | Sol Roth - Religion - 2007 - 232 pages
...fig tree shall not blossom; neither shall fruit be found in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet will I rejoice in the Lord; I will rejoice... | |
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For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice... 
