On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Joel 1:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be ashamed, O you tillers of the soil; wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. American Standard Version (1901) Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. Common English Bible Be shocked, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops of the field are destroyed. Catholic Public Domain Version The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. |
On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Judah mourns; her city gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem’s cry rises up.
Cut off the sower from Babylon as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
Who is the person wise enough to understand this? Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?
‘Son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Wail, ‘Woe because of that day! ’
Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners , to wail.
This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.