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Stripped fig branches and damaged grapevines stand over dry earth.
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Joel 1:6-7

Stripped branches

The Land Mourns · Joel 1

Story guide: Pale, stripped branches and damaged vines show the land laid bare. Joel describes an overwhelming invader through the destruction of his vine and fig tree.

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6For a nation has come up against my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

7It has made my vine a desolation and my fig tree splinters; it has stripped it bare and thrown it down; its branches have turned white.

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