In the day that you plant, you fence it in, and in the morning you made your seed to sprout— but the harvest will be a heap in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Joel 1:11 - Tree of Life Version Be ashamed, O ploughmen; wail, O vinedressers, over wheat and over barley, for the harvest of the field is lost. 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. |
In the day that you plant, you fence it in, and in the morning you made your seed to sprout— but the harvest will be a heap in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Judah will mourn, and her gates languish. They will bow in black to the ground And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
Cut off the sower from Babylon and the one who wields a sickle in the time of harvest. Before the sword of the oppressor they will each turn to his people, each will flee to his own land.
Adonai said “It is because they have forsaken My Torah that I set before them. They have neither obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,
“Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Wail, alas, for the day!
Therefore thus said Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, my Lord: “There will be wailing in all plazas and in all streets. They will say: ‘Alas! Alas!’ The farmer will be called to mourning along with those who know the lamentation song.
And hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Ruach ha-Kodesh who was given to us.