The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the olive oil fails.

Israel’s fields are ruined, and the ground is dried up. The grain has been destroyed. The new wine has dried up. The olive oil has run out.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.

The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.

bibleoremus Joe 1:10

The fields are devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil fails.

The fields are ruined, the ground mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine has come to naught, the oil has failed.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The field is wasted, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

biblegateway Joe 1:10

The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

¹ 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.

² tn Joel uses intentionally alliterative language in the phrases שֻׁדַּד שָׂדֶה (shuddad sadeh, “the field is destroyed”) and אֲבְלָה אֲדָמָה (’avlah ’adamah, “the ground is in mourning”).