1. Joel 1:19 (ESV)
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To what does the fire and the flames refer?

Joel 1:19 (ESV)

19 To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.

The fire and the flames are not real fires, but they are images of the terrible heat and drought.1

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