Joel 1:18

How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

In Context

17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

19To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:5Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

Jeremiah 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Joel 1:20Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:15-20

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. ( b. c. 720.) 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord , 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are… Read the whole commentary →

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