Joel 1:11

1:11 Be distressed, ¹  farmers;

wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley.

For the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 2:30

2:30 I will produce portents both in the sky ²  and on the earth –

blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “embarrassed”; or “be ashamed.”

[2:30]  ² tn Or “in the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.