Joel 1:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Naunsa nga nanag-agulo man ang mga mananap nga mabangis ! ang mga panon sa mga vaca nangalibug, tungod kay sila walay sibsibanan, oo, ang mga panon sa carnero gibiyaan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joel 1:20, 1 Kings 18:5, Jeremiah 12:4, Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6, Hosea 4:3, Romans 8:22

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:15 - And I will 2 Samuel 21:10 - took sackcloth Job 6:5 - loweth Job 36:33 - the cattle Psalms 104:21 - seek Isaiah 19:7 - every Ezekiel 26:17 - How art Joel 2:22 - afraid Jonah 3:7 - herd Haggai 1:10 - General Romans 8:20 - the creature

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How do the beasts groan?.... For want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the locusts; or devoured, or trampled upon, and destroyed, by the Chaldeans; and also for want of water to quench their thirst:

the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; the larger cattle, as oxen; these were in the utmost perplexity, not knowing where to go for food or drink:

yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate; which have shepherds to lead and direct them to pastures, and can feed on commons, where the grass is short, which other cattle cannot; yet even these were in great distress, and wasted away, and were consumed for want of nourishment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How do the beasts groan! - There is something very pitiable in the cry of the brute creation, even because they are innocent, yet bear man’s guilt. Their groaning seems to the prophet to be beyond expression. How vehemently do they “groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed,” as though, like man, they were endued with reason, to debate where to find their food. Yea, not these only, but the flocks of sheep, which might find pasture where the herds could not, these too shall bear the punishment of guilt. They suffered by the guilt of man; and yet so stupid was man, that he was not so sensible of his own win for which they suffered, as they of its effect. The beasts cried to God, but even their cries did not awaken His own people. The prophet cries for them;

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joel 1:18. How do the beasts groan! — I really think that the neighing of horses, or braying of asses, is wonderfully expressed by the sound of the original: מה נאנחה בהמה mah NEENCHAH behemah, how do the horses neigh! how do the asses bray! בהמה behemah is a collective name for all domestic cattle, and those used in husbandry.

Cattle are perplexed — They are looking everywhere, and wandering about to find some grass, and know not which way to run.