Joel 1:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 23:16 : 16 And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.
  • Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god; 11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

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    7By 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.

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

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

    10The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

    11The 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.

    12The 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 1:18-19
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    18What 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.

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  • Joel 1:15-16
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    15Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

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  • Hab 3:17
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    10For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • Isa 37:27
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  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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    4Those 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.

  • Isa 33:9
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    9The 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.

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    36A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.

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    11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

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    5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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    10The 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;

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    30For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

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

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