though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Joel 1:11 - New International Version (Anglicised) Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed. 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. |
though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
‘Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the reaper with his sickle at harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor let everyone return to their own people, let everyone flee to their own land.
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no-one can cross?
‘Son of man, prophesy and say: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘ “Wail and say, ‘Alas for that day!’
Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says: ‘There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.