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17 Seeds shrivel up in their shells.[a]
    Storehouses are destroyed.
        Barns are ruined.
            The grain has dried up.
18 The animals groan.
    Herds of cattle wander around confused.
        There’s no pasture for them.
            Even flocks of sheep are suffering.

19 O Yahweh, I cry to you for help!
    Fire has burned up the open pastures.
        Flames have burned up all the trees in the orchards.

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  1. Joel 1:17 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.[a](A)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;(B)
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.(C)

19 To you, Lord, I call,(D)
    for fire(E) has devoured the pastures(F) in the wilderness
    and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

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

18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19 O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

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