Joel 1:17

The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the winepresses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

16Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

18What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:16And Abraham hearkened to Ephron, and Abraham rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred didrachmas of silver approved with merchants.

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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