Joel 1:10
8 Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- KJV
- The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- WEB
- The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
- ASV
- The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- DARBY
- The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- BLB
- The field is ruined, the land mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
- ÅB
- Marken er ødelagt, jorden sørger; for kornet er ødelagt, mosten er tørket bort, oljen er svunnet inn.
- OTB
- Markene er ødelagt,
landet sørger;
for kornet er ødelagt,
den nye vinen har tørket opp,
og oljen svikter. - B1930
- Marken er ødelagt, jorden sørger; for kornet er ødelagt, mosten er tørket bort, oljen er svunnet inn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:11
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Read in contextHosea 9:2
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Read in contextJoel 1:5
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
Read in contextHaggai 1:11
I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
Read in contextJeremiah 14:2–6
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Read in contextJeremiah 48:33
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:20
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
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