Joel 1:17
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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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
KJV1611 – Modern English
The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
The seeds{H6507} rot{H5685} under their clods;{H4053} the garners{H214} are laid desolate,{H8074} the barns{H4460} are broken down;{H2040} for the grain{H1715} is withered.{H3001}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
The seed{H6507} is rotten{H5685}{(H8804)} under their clods{H4053}, the garners{H214} are laid desolate{H8074}{(H8738)}, the barns{H4460} are broken down{H2040}{(H8738)}; for the corn{H1715} is withered{H3001}{(H8689)}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
The sede shal perish in the grounde, the garners shall lye waist, the floores shalbe broken downe, for the corne shalbe destroied.
Geneva Bible (1560)
The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Webster's Bible (1833)
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.
American Standard Version (1901)
The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
American Standard Version (1901)
The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
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.
World English Bible (2000)
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
Referenced Verses
- 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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8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
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10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.
11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
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