Joel 1:17

The seeds are rotten under their clods, The storehouses are laid desolate, the garners are destroyed; For the corn is withered.

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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 not our food cut off from before our eyes, Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

18How do the beasts groan, How do the herds of oxen wander perplexed, Having no pasture! The flocks of sheep also are destroyed.

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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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