Joel 1:17
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel 1:17 in other translations
| BSB | The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away. |
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| WEB | The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. |
| ASV | The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered. |
| YLT | Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn. |
| DARBY | The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
| BBE | The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead. |
| Webster | The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
What does Joel 1:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 1:14-20
The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purpose; a day in which people must be kept from their common employments, that they may more closely attend God's services; and there is to be abstaining from meat and drink. Every one had added to the national guilt, all shared…
Joel 1:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joel 1:17
- Isaiah 17:10-11
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Genesis 23:16
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
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Context
- Joel 1:16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Joel 1:17
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Joel 1:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El grano se pudrió debajo de sus terrones, los bastimentos fueron asolados, los alfolíes destruídos; porque se secó el trigo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les semences pourrissent sous leurs mottes; les greniers sont désolés; les granges sont renversées, car le blé est desséché. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vermodert sind die Samenkörner unter ihren Schollen; verödet sind die Vorratshäuser, zerfallen die Scheunen, denn das Korn ist verdorrt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Computruerunt jumenta in stercore suo, demolita sunt horrea, dissipatæ sunt apothecæ, quoniam confusum est triticum. |