Joel 1:17

Scattered things have rotted under their clods, || Storehouses have been desolated, || Granaries have been broken down, || For the grain has withered.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

In Context

16Is food not cut off before our eyes? Joy and rejoicing from the house of our God?

18How livestock have sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, || For there is no pasture for them, || Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:16And Abraham listens to Ephron, and Abraham weighs to Ephron the silver which he has spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.

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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