Joel 1:12

New Living Translation

The grapevines have dried up, and the fig trees have withered. The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees— all the fruit trees—have dried up. And the people’s joy has dried up with them.

Cross References

Psalm 4:7

You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.

Psalm 92:12

But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 2:3

Like the finest apple tree in the orchard is my lover among other young men. I sit in his delightful shade and taste his delicious fruit.

Song of Solomon 4:13

Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices— henna with nard,

Isaiah 16:10

Gone now is the gladness, gone the joy of harvest. There will be no singing in the vineyards, no more happy shouts, no treading of grapes in the winepresses. I have ended all their harvest joys.

Isaiah 24:11

Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land.

Isaiah 24:7

The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.

Isaiah 9:3

You will enlarge the nation of Israel, and its people will rejoice. They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors dividing the plunder.

Jeremiah 48:3

Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of devastation and great destruction.

Jeremiah 48:33

Joy and gladness are gone from fruitful Moab. The presses yield no wine. No one treads the grapes with shouts of joy. There is shouting, yes, but not of joy.

Joel 1:10

The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed, the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone.

Joel 1:16

Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

Jonah 4:7

But God also arranged for a worm! The next morning at dawn the worm ate through the stem of the plant so that it withered away.

Haggai 2:19

I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn. You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”

Malachi 3:11

Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Numbers 13:23

When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.