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A Call to Mourning

Joel 1:10

In 11 translations

BSB
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
KJV
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
WEB
The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
ASV
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
LSV
The field is spoiled, || The ground has mourned, || For the grain is spoiled, || New wine has been dried up, oil languishes.
YLT
Spoiled is the field, mourned hath the ground, For spoiled is the corn, Dried up hath been new wine, languish doth oil.
DBY
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
DRC
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
GNV
The fielde is wasted: the lande mourneth: for the corne is destroyed: the new wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed.
JPS
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
LXXE
For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
שֻׁדַּ֣ד שָׂדֶ֔ה אָבְלָ֖ה אֲדָמָ֑ה כִּ֚י שֻׁדַּ֣ד דָּגָ֔ן הוֹבִ֥ישׁ תִּיר֖וֹשׁ אֻמְלַ֥ל יִצְהָֽר׃
LXX-Br
ὅτι τεταλαιπώρηκε τὰ πεδία· πενθείτω ἡ γῆ, ὅτι τεταλαιπώρηκεν σῖτος· ἐξηράνθη οἶνος, ὠλιγώθη ἔλαιον·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
  • Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
  • Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  • Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
  • Jeremiah 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
  • Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
  • Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
  • Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
  • Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
  • Jeremiah 14:2–6“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They…
  • Joel 1:17–20The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away. How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture.…
  • Isaiah 24:3–4The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
  • Isaiah 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

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