Joel 1:17
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 23:16 : 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
- Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips. 11 In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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7He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
10The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.
11Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.
12The 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.
- Joel 1:18-192 verses81%
18How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19Yahweh, 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.
- Joel 1:15-162 verses80%
15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
16Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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17For 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:
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10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
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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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
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26Therefore 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 blasted before it is grown up.
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4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
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9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
- Jer 25:36-372 verses75%
36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
37The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
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11In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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5Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
- Jer 12:10-112 verses75%
10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
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6They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
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12Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
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28Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.
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1Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vinyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
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10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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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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7For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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7With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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4How 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.
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7"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
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13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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31The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
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10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
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7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
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12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
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24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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13Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.
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31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.
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5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
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17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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12And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
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10For 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 cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
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6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.