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Read›Joel›Chapter 1

A Call to Repentance

Joel 1:17

In 11 translations

BSB
The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
KJV
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.seed: Heb. grains
WEB
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
ASV
The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
LSV
Scattered things have rotted under their clods, || Storehouses have been desolated, || Granaries have been broken down, || For the grain has withered.
YLT
Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.
DBY
The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
DRC
The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.
GNV
The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
JPS
The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
LXXE
The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עָבְשׁ֣וּ פְרֻד֗וֹת תַּ֚חַת מֶגְרְפֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙ אֹֽצָר֔וֹת נֶהֶרְס֖וּ מַמְּגֻר֑וֹת כִּ֥י הֹבִ֖ישׁ דָּגָֽן׃
LXX-Br
Ἐσκίρτησαν δαμάλεις ἐπὶ ταῖς φάτναις αὐτῶν, ἠφανίσθησαν θησαυροὶ, κατεσκάφησαν ληνοὶ, ὅτι ἐξηράνθη σῖτος.

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  • Isaiah 17:10–11For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— though on the day you plant you…
  • Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

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