Joel 1:10

The fields are blasted, the land is in mourning, for ruined is the grain, the new wine fails and the oil is dried up.

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In The King James Version

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

In Context

9Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.

11Be dismayed, farmers; wail, vine-dressers. For the wheat and the barley; for the harvest is lost from the fields.

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Cross References

Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, all its inhabitants languish, the wild animals and the birds of the skies, even the fish of the sea are dying.

Joel 1:5Awake, drunkards, and weep, and wail, all drinkers of wine; the new wine is cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:17The grains shrivel under their hoes, the storehouses are desolate, the barns broken down, for the grain is withered.

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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