Joel 1:11

the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

12The vine is dried up, and the fig trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all the trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 9:12And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Jeremiah 14:3And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

Amos 5:16Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

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 →

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