Joel 1:10
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Isaiah 24:3With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Jeremiah 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah 14:2Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Hosea 4:3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.
Joel 1:5Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:9-14
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord ; the priests, the Lord 's ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up,… Read the whole commentary →