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Joel 1:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Grapevines have dried up and so has every tree— figs and pomegranates, date palms and apples. All happiness has faded away.

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You brought me more happiness than a rich harvest of grain and grapes.

Good people will prosper like palm trees, and they will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

And you, my love, are an apple tree among trees of the forest. Your shade brought me pleasure; your fruit was sweet.

Your arms are vines, covered with delicious fruits and all sorts of spices— henna, nard,

or joyful and happy times, while bringing in the crops. Singing and shouting are gone from the vineyards. There are no joyful shouts where grapes were pressed. God has silenced them all.

Happy times have disappeared from the earth, and people shout in the streets, “We're out of wine!”

Grapevines have dried up: wine is almost gone— mournful sounds are heard instead of joyful shouts.

Our LORD, you have made your nation stronger. Because of you, its people are glad and celebrate like workers at harvest time or like soldiers dividing up what they have taken.

The people of Horonaim will cry for help, as their town is attacked and destroyed.

Harvest celebrations are gone from the orchards and farms of Moab. There are no happy shouts from people making wine.

Barren fields mourn; grain, grapes, and olives are scorched and shrivelled.

Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.

but early the next morning the LORD sent a worm to chew on the vine, and the vine dried up.

Although you have not yet harvested any grain, grapes, figs, pomegranates, or olives, I will richly bless you in the days ahead.

I will also stop locusts from destroying your crops and keeping your vineyards from producing.

When they got to Bunch Valley, they cut off a branch with such a huge bunch of grapes, that it took two men to carry it on a pole. That's why the place was called Bunch Valley. Along with the grapes, they also took back pomegranates and figs.




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