Joel 1:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
  • 1 Kgs 17:7 : 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
  • 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.
  • Job 38:41 : 41 Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?
  • Ps 145:15 : 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens which cry.

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

    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

    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.

  • Jer 9:10
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    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.

  • Isa 56:9
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    9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

  • Hos 4:3
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    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 12:4
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    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.'

  • Isa 35:6-7
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    6Then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing: for waters shall burst forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

    7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    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.

  • Ps 104:11
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    11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

  • Isa 43:20
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    20The beast of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

  • Nah 1:4-5
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    4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

    5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world and all who dwell in it.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Job 30:3
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    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

  • Ps 107:33
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    33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;

  • Ps 107:35
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    35He turns the wilderness into pools of water, and dry land into water springs.

  • Zech 11:3
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    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.

  • Jer 7:20
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    20Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it will burn, and will not be quenched.

  • Isa 41:17-18
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    17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

    18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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

  • Joel 1:10-12
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    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.

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

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    30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

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    5The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

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  • Jer 25:36-37
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    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.

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    38A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of carved images, and they are mad upon their idols.

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    22Be not afraid, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their yield.

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    1As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

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    6The voice said, Cry out. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field:

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    20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

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