Joel 1:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

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  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
  • Hos 9:2 : 2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
  • Joel 1:5 : 5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
  • Jer 14:2-6 : 2 Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads. 4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads. 5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass. 6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
  • Jer 48:33 : 33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
  • Joel 1:12 : 12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
  • Joel 1:17-20 : 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead. 18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen. 19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame. 20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
  • Hag 1:11 : 11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
  • Lev 26:20 : 20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
  • Isa 24:3-4 : 3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord. 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
  • Isa 24:11 : 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Joel 1:11-13
    3 verses
    89%

    11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

    12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

    13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

  • Joel 1:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • Joel 1:7-9
    3 verses
    83%

    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

    8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

    9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

  • Isa 16:8-10
    3 verses
    82%

    8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

    9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

    10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

  • Isa 24:7
    82%

    7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • Isa 33:9
    80%

    9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

  • Joel 1:5
    79%

    5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Isa 24:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

    12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

    13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • Jer 12:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

    11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • Hag 1:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

    11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

  • Hab 3:17
    77%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Hos 9:2
    77%

    2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • Amos 5:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

    17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

  • Isa 24:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

    4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • Jer 48:33
    76%

    33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

  • Job 24:11
    76%

    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Hos 4:3
    76%

    3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

  • Jer 9:10
    75%

    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Isa 32:12
    75%

    12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

  • Isa 5:7
    74%

    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

  • Isa 5:10
    74%

    10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

  • Jer 23:10
    74%

    10 For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

  • Amos 9:13
    73%

    13 See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

  • Isa 6:12
    73%

    12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

  • Mic 6:15
    73%

    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Jer 31:12
    73%

    12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

  • Isa 1:7
    73%

    7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Joel 2:24
    73%

    24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.

  • Jer 14:4
    73%

    4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

  • Lam 1:4
    73%

    4 The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

  • Jer 12:4
    73%

    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Mic 2:4
    72%

    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Isa 5:13
    72%

    13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

  • Lev 26:20
    72%

    20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

  • Ps 80:13
    72%

    13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Mic 7:1
    72%

    1 Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.