Joel 1:10
in Joel 1The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
KJV
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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This verse in Joel 1
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thus, "a man of the field," in Hebrew, is a "hunter"; a "man of the ground" or "land," an "agriculturist" (Ge 25:27). "Field" and "land" are here personified. new wine--from a Hebrew root implying that it takes possession of the brain, so that a man is not master of himself.
This site's exposition
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
on Joel 1:8-10
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth turns the plague from agriculture to grief, a young widow's mourning borrowed for a ravaged land. The meat offering and the drink offering cut off from the house of the Lord marks the plague's deepest wound for a covenant people, worship itself interrupted for want of grain and wine, and the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn because their office has nothing left to bring. The field wasted and the land mourning is stated twice in two verses, the ground itself given the mourner's part alongside the people.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(V. 9 seqq.) The sacrifice and libation from the house of the Lord have perished; the priests, ministers of the Lord, mourn. The land is laid waste, the earth mourns; for the wheat is destroyed. The wine is spoiled, the oil languishes, the farmers are confused. The vintners wail over the wheat and barley, for the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is dried up, the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up; because joy has been confounded among the sons of men.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
).; all is consumed that is produced; the land mourns; the ground has a melancholy aspect, and looks ruefully; all the inhabitants of the land are in tears for what they have lost, are in fear of perishing for want, Isa. xxiv.
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The corn - The wheat and barley, is eaten up in its greenness. Dried up - The drought was so great, that the vines were withered, and all their hopes of new wine cut off.
The field is wasted,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The field is wasted, the land mourneth - As, when God pours out His blessings of nature, all nature seems to smile and be glad, and as the Psalmist says, “to shout for joy and sing” Psa 65:13, so when He withholds them, it seems to mourn, and, by its mourning, to reproach the insensibility of man. Oil is the emblem of the abundant graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit, and of the light and devotion of soul given by Him, and spiritual gladness, and overflowing, all-mantling charity.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שֻׁדַּ֣ד | shudad | it is devastated | H7703 → | |
| שָׂדֶ֔ה | sadeh | [the] field[s] | H7704 → | 334 times |
| אָבְלָ֖ה | ʾavelah | it is dried up | H56 → | |
| אֲדָמָ֑ה | ʾadamah | [the] ground | H127 → | |
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| שֻׁדַּ֣ד | shudad | it is devastated | H7703 → | |
| דָּגָ֔ן | dagan | [the] grain | H1715 → | 40 times |
| הוֹבִ֥ישׁ | hovish | it has dried up | H3001 → | 59 times |
| תִּיר֖וֹשׁ | tiroosh | [the] new wine | H8492 → | 38 times |
| אֻמְלַ֥ל | ʾumlal | it has dried out | H535 → | |
| יִצְהָֽר׃ | yitzhar | [the] fresh oil | H3323 → | 23 times |
שֻׁדַּ֣דit is devastated
shudadH7703 →
שָׂדֶ֔ה[the] field[s]
sadehH7704 →334 times
אָבְלָ֖הit is dried up
ʾavelahH56 →
אֲדָמָ֑ה[the] ground
ʾadamahH127 →
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
שֻׁדַּ֣דit is devastated
shudadH7703 →
דָּגָ֔ן[the] grain
daganH1715 →40 times
הוֹבִ֥ישׁit has dried up
hovishH3001 →59 times
תִּיר֖וֹשׁ[the] new wine
tirooshH8492 →38 times
אֻמְלַ֥לit has dried out
ʾumlalH535 →
יִצְהָֽר׃[the] fresh oil
yitzharH3323 →23 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
it leads to
- Zephaniah 1:3
“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind…
- Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- Isaiah 24:4–12
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- Zephaniah 1:3
Through
Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
it leads to
- James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Luke 21:34–36
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- James 5:1
Through
Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
it leads to
- Isaiah 42:25
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to…
- Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
- Isaiah 42:25
Through
Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
it leads to
- Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
- Hosea 2:9
Where this verse is studied
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About Joel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Joel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.