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Joel 1:10
New English Translation
Joel 1:10
New English Translation
10 The crops of the fields[a] have been destroyed.[b]
The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.
The fresh wine has dried up;
the olive oil languishes.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:10 tn Heb “the field has been utterly destroyed.” The term “field,” a collective singular for “fields,” is a metonymy for crops produced by the fields.
- Joel 1:10 tn Joel uses intentionally alliterative language in the phrases שֻׁדַּד שָׂדֶה (shuddad sadeh, “the field is destroyed”) and אֲבְלָה אֲדָמָה (ʾavelah ʾadamah, “the ground is in mourning”).
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