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

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Therefore (A)the land mourns,
    and all who dwell in it languish,
(B)and also the beasts of the field
    and the birds of the heavens,
    (C)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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(A)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and (B)the new wine shall fail them.

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11 They have made it a desolation;
    desolate, (A)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
    (B)but no man lays it to heart.

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Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
    and (A)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (B)the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.

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11 And (A)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on (B)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and (C)on all their labors.”

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17 (A)The seed shrivels under the clods;[a]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because (B)the grain has dried up.
18 How (C)the beasts groan!
    The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.[b]

19 To you, (D)O Lord, I call.
(E)For fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness,
(F)and flame has burned
    all the trees of the field.
20 Even the beasts of the field (G)pant for you
    because the water brooks are dried up,
(H)and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
  2. Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate

12 The vine dries up;
    (A)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (B)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

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33 (A)Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.

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(A)“Judah mourns,
    and (B)her gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
    and (C)the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Her nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty;
they are (D)ashamed and confounded
    and (E)cover their heads.
Because of the ground that is dismayed,
    since there is (F)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
    they cover their heads.
Even (G)the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.
(H)The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
    they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
    because there is no vegetation.

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(A)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    (C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

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11 (A)There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
    (B)all joy has grown dark;
    the gladness of the earth is banished.

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(A)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
    (B)for the Lord has spoken this word.

(C)The earth mourns and withers;
    the world languishes and withers;
    the highest people of the earth languish.

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20 And (A)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (B)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

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