Joel 1:17
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.
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- Gen 23:16 : 16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth– 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.
- Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines. 11 The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
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- Joel 1:7-126 verses84%
7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.
8A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
9No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the LORD anymore. So the priests, those who serve the LORD, are in mourning.
10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.
11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
12The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes– the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!
- Joel 1:18-192 verses81%
18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.
- Joel 1:15-162 verses80%
15How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.
16Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!
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17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,
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10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.
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27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
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26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
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4They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.
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9The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the arid rift valley; Bashan and Carmel are parched.
- Jer 25:36-372 verses75%
36Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the LORD is about to destroy their lands.
37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.
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5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.
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11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
- Jer 12:10-112 verses75%
10Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wilderness.
11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.
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6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
- Ps 80:12-132 verses74%
12Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?
13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.
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28Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.
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1Micah Laments Judah’s Sin Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit, and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat, and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.
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10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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30For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.
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7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
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7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
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4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”
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7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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13My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the LORD will take them away in his fierce anger.
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20“They cry,‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.’
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31(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.
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10Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards, and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts; no one treads out juice in the wine vats– I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.
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7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.
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12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
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10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”
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24Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
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13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
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31I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
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5“If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!
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17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
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12and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.
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10The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning I said,“I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”
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6For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.