Joel 1:11

Be ashamed, you farmers, 1 and wail, you vine growers, 1 for the wheat and the barley. 1 For the harvest of the fields has perished. 1

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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

10The fields are ruined, 1 the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed. 1 The new wine has dried up, 1 the oil fails. 1

12The vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up, 1 the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees— 1 all the trees of the field have withered. 1 For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 9:12What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? 1 Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass through?

Jeremiah 14:3Their mighty ones send out their servants for water. 1 When they go to the trenches, they cannot find water. They all return unsuccessful; 1 they cover their heads ashamed and dishonored. 1

Amos 5:16Therefore, this is what Yahweh says, 1 the God of hosts, the Lord, 1 “Wailing will be in all the squares, 1 and they will say in all the streets, 1 'Woe! Woe!' 1 They will call the farmers to mourning 1 and the mourners to wail. 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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