Joel 1:17

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The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

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  • Gen 23:16 : 16 Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and weighed out the silver for him. He gave him the four hundred shekels of silver, as agreed upon in the presence of the Hittites, using the weight current among the merchants.
  • Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, you will plant pleasant plants and set them with imported vines. 11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

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    7It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

    9Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.

    10The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

    11Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people.

  • Joel 1:18-19
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    81%

    18How the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander in confusion because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

    19To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

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

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  • Hab 3:17
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    17Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Hag 1:10
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    10Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26Their inhabitants were powerless; they were dismayed and confounded. They were like plants of the field, tender grass, vegetation sprouting on the roofs, scorched before it can grow.

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    4Because the ground is cracked due to the lack of rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

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    9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

  • Jer 25:36-37
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    36Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

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    10Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

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    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

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    30For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

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    7The new wine dries up, the vine withers, and all the merry-hearted groan.

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