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A Promise of Hope—A Call to Obedience: A Commentary on the Books of Joel and Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Joel is one of the Old Testament prophetic books, but it also has a clear and close association with lament literature. Graham Ogden takes seriously the book’s lament setting, exegeting it entirely from within that framework. In his commentary on the book of Malachi, Richard Deutsch examines the religious, moral, and social aspects of the early postexilic Jewish community that the...

The voracious appetite of four kinds of locust, or perhaps of four different stages in the locust life cycle, are used to form a highly descriptive expression for complete devastation—nothing remains after they sweep by. The three parallel lines of this verse are a bald statement, the content of which is independent of vv. 2–3 and v. 5, and the verse has all the flavor of a traditional aphorism. This, together with a reference to all four locusts again
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