(A)The wine mourns,
    the vine languishes,
    all the merry-hearted sigh.

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10 (A)And joy and gladness are taken away from (B)the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no (C)songs are sung,
    no cheers are raised;
no (D)treader treads out wine (E)in the presses;
    I have put an end to the shouting.

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10 The fields are destroyed,
    (A)the ground mourns,
because (B)the grain is destroyed,
    (C)the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

11 (D)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    (E)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
    (F)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (G)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike

For the fields of Heshbon languish,
    and (A)the vine of Sibmah;
the lords of the nations
    have struck down its branches,
which reached to Jazer
    and strayed to the desert;
its shoots spread abroad
    and passed over the sea.

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The Lord Will Punish Israel

Rejoice not, O Israel!
    Exult not like the peoples;
(A)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
    (B)You have loved a prostitute's wages
    on all threshing floors.
(C)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and (D)the new wine shall fail them.

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Complacent Women Warned of Disaster

(A)Rise up, you women (B)who are at ease, hear my voice;
    you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 In little more than a year
    you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
    the fruit harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you women (C)who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
(D)strip, and make yourselves bare,
    (E)and tie sackcloth around your waist.
12 (F)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
13 (G)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
(H)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.

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