SIL Translator’s Notes on Joel 1:19

1:19a To You, O LORD, I call,

I pray to you (sing.), Yahweh, ⌊for help⌋ !
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Yahweh, it is to you (sing.) that I appeal/cry!
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O Yahweh, I call out to you (sing.)in distress

1:19b for fire has consumed the open pastures

For a fire has consumed the meadows/pasture throughout the countryside.
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Fire has destroyed the grasslands
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because fire has burned all the grass in the bush

1:19c and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

Its flames have burnt up all the trees.
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and all the wooded areas.
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and all the trees in the woods/forests.

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