Joel 1:10

The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The fields are ruined and empty of crops. The grain, the wine, and the olive oil are gone.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The fields are sterile. The very ground grieves. The wheat fields are lifeless, vineyards dried up, olive oil gone.

SABDAweb Joe 1:10

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

bibleoremus Joe 1:10

The fields are devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil fails.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The field is wasted, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

¹ tn Heb “the field has been utterly destroyed.” The term “field,” a collective singular for “fields,” is a metonymy for crops produced by the fields.

² tn Joel uses intentionally alliterative language in the phrases שֻׁדַּד שָׂדֶה (shuddad sadeh, “the field is destroyed”) and אֲבְלָה אֲדָמָה (’avlah ’adamah, “the ground is in mourning”).