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Green's Literal Translation

Joel 1:11

Be withered, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Nation;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Barley;   Grain;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Famine;   Harvest, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Drought;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Nahum, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Barley;   Husbandman;   Joel;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Famine;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barley;   Husbandman;   Joel (2);   Palestine;   Pomegranate;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barley;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alliteration and Kindred Figures;   Famine;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Be sad, farmers! Cry loudly for the grapes, for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest in the field is ruined.
New American Standard Bible
Be ashamed, you farm workers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
New Century Version
Be sad, farmers. Cry loudly, you who grow grapes. Cry for the wheat and the barley. Cry because the harvest of the field is lost.
New English Translation
Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
Update Bible Version
Be confounded, O you husbandmen, wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
Webster's Bible Translation
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.
Amplified Bible
Be ashamed, O farmers; Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley, Because the harvest of the field has perished.
English Standard Version
Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
World English Bible
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The erthe tilieris ben schent, the vyn tilieris yelliden on wheete and barli; for the ripe corn of the feeld is perischid.
English Revised Version
Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
Berean Standard Bible
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
Contemporary English Version
Mourn for our farms and our vineyards! There's no wheat or barley growing in our fields.
American Standard Version
Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
Bible in Basic English
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
Complete Jewish Bible
Despair, you farmers; lament, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley — the harvest from the fields is lost.
Darby Translation
Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
King James Version (1611)
Be yee ashamed, O yee husbandmen: howle, O yee vine-dressers, for the wheate and for the barley; because the haruest of the field is perished.
New Living Translation
Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley— all the crops of the field—are ruined.
New Life Bible
Be troubled, you farmers! Cry in a loud voice, you who take care of the vines! Cry for the wheat and the barley, because what was gathered from the field is destroyed.
New Revised Standard
Be dismayed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley; for the crops of the field are ruined.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Be ye ashamed, O husband men: howle, O ye vine dressers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the fielde is perished.
George Lamsa Translation
Be ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, howl for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the fields is perished.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Turn pale, ye husbandmen, howl, ye vinedressers, over the wheat, and over the barley, - for perished is the harvest of the field.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.
Revised Standard Version
Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be ye ashamed O ye husbandemen, howle O ye wine dressers for ye wheate and for the barly: for the haruest of the fielde is perished.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
Good News Translation
Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed.
Christian Standard Bible®
Be ashamed, you farmers,wail, you vinedressers,over the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field has perished.
Hebrew Names Version
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field is ruined.
Young's Literal Translation
Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The hu?bodemen & the wyne gardeners shal loke piteously & make lamentacion, for the wheate wyne & barley, & because the haruest vpon the felde is so clene destroyed.
THE MESSAGE
Dirt farmers, despair! Grape growers, wring your hands! Lament the loss of wheat and barley. All crops have failed. Vineyards dried up, fig trees withered, Pomegranates, date palms, and apple trees— deadwood everywhere! And joy is dried up and withered in the hearts of the people.
New King James Version
Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
Legacy Standard Bible
Be ashamed, O farmers,Wail, O vinedressers,For the wheat and the barley,Because the harvest of the field perishes.

Contextual Overview

8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth over the husband of her youth. 9 The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up, the oil tree droops. 11 Be withered, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished. 12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men. 13 Gird up and lament, priests. Howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ashamed: Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:4, Romans 5:5

because: Isaiah 17:11, Jeremiah 9:12

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:1 - a famine 2 Chronicles 6:28 - locusts Isaiah 13:6 - Howl ye Jeremiah 50:16 - the sower Ezekiel 30:2 - Howl Joel 1:5 - weep Amos 5:16 - Wailing Amos 8:3 - the songs James 5:1 - weep

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening, and there was morning the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day, and the small luminary and the stars to rule the night.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a soul of life; and let the birds fly over the earth, on the face of the expanse of the heavens.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.
Genesis 2:5
And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden; also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Genesis 2:16
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Eating you may eat of every tree in the garden;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen,.... Tillers of the land, who have took a great deal of pains in cultivating the earth, dunging, ploughing, and sowing it; confusion may cover you, because of your disappointment, the increase not answering to your expectations and labours:

howl, O ye vinedressers; that worked in the vineyards, set the vines, watered and pruned them, and, when they had done all they could to them, were dried up with the drought, or devoured by the locusts, as they were destroyed by the Assyrians or Chaldeans; and therefore had reason to howl and lament, all their labour being lost:

for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field is perished; this belongs to the husbandmen, is a reason for their shame and blushing, because the wheat and barley were destroyed before they were ripe; and so they had neither wheat nor barley harvest. The words, by a transposition, would read better, and the sense be clearer, "thus, be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest", c. "howl, O ye vine dressers" for what follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be ye ashamed, O ye farmers - The prophet dwells on and expands the description of the troubles which he had foretold, setting before their eyes the picture of one universal dessolation. For the details of sorrow most touch the heart, and he wished to move them to repentance. He pictures them to themselves; some standing aghast and ashamed of the fruitlessness of their toil others giving way to bursts of sorrow, and all things around waste and dried. Nothing was exempt. Wheat and barley, widespread as they were (and the barley in those countries, “more fertile” than the wheat,) perished utterly. The rich juice of the vine, the luscious sweetness of the fig the succulence of the ever-green pomegranate, the majesty of the palm tree, the fragrance of the eastern apple, exempted them not. All, fruitbearing or barren, were dried up, for joy itself, and every source of joy was dried up from the sons of men.

All these suggest a spiritual meaning. For we know of a spiritual harvest, souls born to God, and a spiritual vineyard, the Church of God; and spiritual farmers and vinedressers, those whom God sends. The trees, with their various fruits were emblems of the faithful, adorned with the various gifts and graces of the Spirit. All well-nigh were dried up. Wasted without, in act and deed, the sap of the Spirit ceased within; the true laborers, those who were jealous for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts were ashamed and grieved. : “Husbandmen” and “vinedressers,” are priests and preachers; “farmers” as instructors in morals, “vinedressers” for that joy in things eternal, which they infuse into the minds of the bearers. “Husbandmen,” as instructing the soul to deeds of righteousness; vinedressers, as exciting the minds of hearers to the love of wisdom. Or, “farmers,” in that by their doctrine they uproot earthly deeds and desires; “vinedressers,” as holding forth spiritual gifts.” “The vine is the richness of divine knowledge; the fig the sweetness of contemplation and the joyousness in things eternal.” The pomegranate, with its manifold grains contained under its one bark, may designate the variety and harmony of graces, disposed in their beautiful order. “The palm, rising above the world.” : “Well is the life of the righteous likened to a palm, in that the palm below is rough to the touch, and in a manner enveloped in dry bark, but above it is adorned with fruit, fair even to the eye; below it is compressed by the enfoldings of its bark; above, it is spread nut in amplitude of beautiful greenness. For so is the life of the elect, despised below, beautiful above. Down below, it is, as it were, enfolded in many barks, in that it is straitened by innumerable afflictions. But on high it is expanded into a foliage, as it were, of beautiful greenness by the amplitude of the rewarding.”


 
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