Joel 1:10

The sadeh (field) is wasted, 1 the adamah (land) mourneth; 1 for the grain is wasted; 1 the new wine is dried up, 1 the oil languisheth. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

9The minchah and the nesekh is cut off 1 from the Beis Hashem; 1 the kohanim, the mesharetim (ministers) 1 of Hashem, mourn. 1

11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; + 1:11 i.e., farmers 1 wail, O ye vinedressers, 1 for the wheat and for the barley; 1 because the katzir (harvest) of the sadeh is perished. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:3HaAretz shall be utterly emptied, 1 and utterly plundered; 1 for Hashem hath spoken this davar (word). 1

Jeremiah 12:4Ad mosai (until when) shall HaAretz mourn, 1 and the esev kol hasadeh (grass of every field) wither, 1 because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein? 1 The behemot are consumed, and the oph; 1 because they said: He + 12:4 G-d is blind to our future. 1

Jeremiah 14:2Yehudah mourneth, 1 and the she'arim (gates), + 14:2 i.e., towns thereof languish; 1 they mourn for the land; 1 and the cry of Yerushalayim is gone up. 1

Hosea 4:3Therefore shall ha'aretz mourn, 1 and every one that dwelleth therein shall waste away languishing, 1 with the wild beasts of the sadeh, and with the fowls of Shomayim; 1 yea, the dagim of the yam also shall disappear. 1

Joel 1:5Awake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; 1 and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, 1 because of the new wine, for it is cut off 1 from your mouth. 1

Joel 1:17The seed is rotten under their clods, 1 the otzarot (storehouses) are laid desolate, 1 the barns are broken down; 1 for the grain is withered. 1

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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