10 The field is (A)ruined,
(B)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil [a]fails.
11 [b](C)Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the (D)harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The (E)vine dries up
And the fig tree [c]fails;
The (F)pomegranate, the (G)palm also, and the [d](H)apple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, (I)rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:10 Lit wastes away
  2. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail
  3. Joel 1:12 Lit wastes away
  4. Joel 1:12 Or apricot

“I (A)smote you with scorching wind and mildew;
And the (B)caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have (C)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

Read full chapter

we are (A)afflicted in every way, but not (B)crushed; (C)perplexed, but not despairing; (D)persecuted, but not (E)forsaken; (F)struck down, but not destroyed;

Read full chapter