Joel 1:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ Seed has shriveled under the dirt clod. Storehouses are desolate, granaries are torn down, for the grain has withered.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ The seed [grain] rots and shrivels under the clods, the garners are desolate and empty, the barns are in ruins because the grain has failed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The grain shrivels under the shovels; the barns are empty. The granaries are in ruin because the grain has dried up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ The mules have rotted in their own manure, the barns have been demolished, the wine cellars have been destroyed, because the grain has been ruined.

Joel 1:17 Cross References

Genesis 23:16

Abraham heard Ephron. So Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth—400 shekels of silver at the merchant’s rate.

Matthew 6:26

“Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?