Joel 1:17 Parallel Translations

Seeds shrivel up in their shells. Storehouses are destroyed. Barns are ruined. The grain has dried up. (GOD'S WORD®)

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

ASV:

The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain 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.

DBY:

The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

ERV:

The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

JPS:

The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

WBS:

The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

WEB:

The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

YLT:

Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

Joel 1:17 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Isaiah 17:11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

1:17 Laid desolate - Run to ruin because the owners discouraged with the barrenness of the seasons, would not repair them.

MHC:

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 in the national calamity, therefore every one must join in repentance. When joy and gladness are cut off from God's house, when serious godliness decays, and love waxes cold, then it is time to cry unto the Lord. The prophet describes how grievous the calamity. See even the inferior creatures suffering for our transgression. And what better are they than beasts, who never cry to God but for corn and wine, and complain of the want of the delights of sense? Yet their crying to God in those cases, shames the stupidity of those who cry not to God in any case. Whatever may become of the nations and churches that persist in ungodliness, believers will find the comfort of acceptance with God, when the wicked shall be burned up with his indignation.

CONC:

Barns Beneath Broken Clods Corn Dead Desolate Desolated Dried Dry Failed Garners Grain Grains Grain-stores Granaries Hoes Laid Perished Rot Rotted Rotten Ruined Ruins Scattered Seed Seeds Shrivel Shriveled Shrivels Spade Storehouses Store-houses Torn Waste Withered

Barns Beneath Broken Clods Corn Desolate Dried Dry Failed Garners Grain Grains Granaries Hoes Laid Perished Rot Rotten Ruined Seed Seeds Shrivel Shriveled Small Spade Storehouses Store-Houses Torn Waste Withered

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