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Joel 1:10-12

King James Version (KJV)

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10. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11. 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. 12. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, [even] all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Joel 1:10-12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Joel 1:10

Theological / Devotional

Land mourneth. By the figure of personification the land is presented as mourning its unproductiveness. The Hebrew of this verse displays several interesting alliterations, which cannot be reproduced in the English.

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