They ¹  have destroyed our ²  vines; ³  they have turned our ⁴  fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark ⁵  and thrown them aside; the ⁶  twigs are stripped bare. ⁷ 

biblegateway Joe 1:7

It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

It has devastated My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.

They destroyed my grapevines. They ruined my fig trees. They stripped off what they could eat, threw the rest away, and left the branches bare.

biblegateway Joe 1:7

It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig-trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.

bibleoremus Joe 1:7

It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches have turned white.

They have laid waste my vines and left my fig trees broken; they have plucked them bare and stripped them of their bark, leaving the branches white.

biblegateway Joe 1:7

He has laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white.

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches thereof are made white.

biblegateway Joe 1:7

They ¹  have destroyed our ²  vines; ³  they have turned our ⁴  fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark ⁵  and thrown them aside; the ⁶  twigs are stripped bare. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “it.” Throughout vv. 6-7 the Hebrew uses singular forms to describe the locust swarm, but the translation uses plural forms because several details of the text make more sense in English as if they are describing the appearance and effects of individual locusts.

² tn Heb “my.”

³ tn Both “vines” and “fig trees” are singular in the Hebrew text, but are regarded as collective singulars.

⁴ tn Heb “my.”

⁵ tn Heb “it has completely stripped her.”

⁶ tn Heb “her.”

⁷ tn Heb “grow white.”

⁷ sn Once choice leafy vegetation is no longer available to them, locusts have been known to consume the bark of small tree limbs, leaving them in an exposed and vulnerable condition. It is apparently this whitened condition of limbs that Joel is referring to here.