though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Joel 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Be dismayed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley; for the crops of the field are ruined. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Judah mourns and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the wielder of the sickle in time of harvest; because of the destroying sword all of them shall return to their own people, and all of them shall flee to their own land.
Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Mortal, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Wail, “Alas for the day!”
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning, and those skilled in lamentation, to wailing;
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.