Joel 1:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we do not lose all the beasts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Joel 1:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    19O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

    20The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • Joel 1:17
    81%

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Jer 25:34-37
    4 verses
    80%

    34Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in the ashes, you leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

    35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 9:10
    79%

    10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • Jer 12:4
    78%

    4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

  • Hos 4:3
    77%

    3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Jer 14:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads.

    5Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

    6And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

  • Hab 3:17
    77%

    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Joel 1:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

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

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • Jer 10:21
    76%

    21For the pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

  • Zech 11:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage has come down.

    3There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. The sound of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

    4Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

  • Ezek 34:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food for all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none searched or sought after them.

    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

    8As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my flock;

  • Ps 80:13
    75%

    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Ps 8:7
    75%

    7All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

  • Job 6:5
    73%

    5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

  • Job 30:3
    73%

    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

  • Job 36:33
    73%

    33The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.

  • Job 18:3
    73%

    3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • Isa 33:9
    73%

    9The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withered; Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

  • Jer 12:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • Ezek 14:15
    73%

    15If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, so that it is desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

  • Isa 27:10
    72%

    10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Jer 23:1
    72%

    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.

  • Ezek 34:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?

    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

  • Jer 50:6
    72%

    6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • Exod 9:3
    72%

    3Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon your cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep: there shall be a very severe pestilence.

  • Isa 15:6
    72%

    6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

  • Prov 27:25
    72%

    25The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

  • Ps 148:10
    72%

    10Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds;

  • Isa 37:27
    72%

    27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Isa 32:12
    71%

    12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • Ps 65:12
    71%

    12They drop on the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills rejoice on every side.

  • Isa 5:17
    71%

    17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    71%

    26Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.