Joel 1:18

World English Bible (2000)

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have 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 travails in pain together until now.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

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  • Joel 1:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    19 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

    20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Jer 25:34-37
    4 verses
    80%

    34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.

    35 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

    36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.

    37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • Jer 14:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

    5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

    6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

  • 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Joel 1:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

    11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

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

  • 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

  • Zech 11:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

    3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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

  • Ezek 34:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

    6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

    7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

    8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

  • 13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

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    7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

  • 9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

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

  • 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • 33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

  • Jer 12:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

    11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

  • 15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

  • 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

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

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    18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

    19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

  • 6 My 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.

  • 3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

  • 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

  • 25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

  • 10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants had 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 a field before its crop has grown.

  • 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

  • 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

  • 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small 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 blasted before it has grown up.