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Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley— all the crops of the field—are ruined.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/joel/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/joel/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/joel/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/joel/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be ashamed, you farm workers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/joel/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/joel/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/joel/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley, Because the harvest of the field perishes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/joel/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O farmers; Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley, Because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/joel/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/joel/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joel/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/joel/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Mourn for our farms and our vineyards! There's no wheat or barley growing in our fields. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joel/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/joel/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Be sad, you farmers! Cry loudly, you grape growers! Mourn for the wheat and the barley. The harvest is destroyed in the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/joel/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/joel/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Be dismayed, you farmers! Cry aloud, you vintners, for the wheat and barley, because the harvest in your fields has been lost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/joel/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/joel/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/joel/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Be confounded, you farmers. Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joel/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joel/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/joel/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Be ashamed, you farmers, "" Howl, vinedressers, for wheat and for barley, "" For the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joel/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/joel/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joel/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/joel/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/joel/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Be appalled, you farmers! wail, you vinedressers, Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest in the field is ruined. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/joel/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Be dismayed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley; for the crops of the field are ruined.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/joel/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, howl for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the fields is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/joel/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Be ashamed, farmers, and wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is gone<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/joel/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, Wail, O ye vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley; Because the harvest of the field is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/joel/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/joel/1-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oEU9eLLsIkI?start=99" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">A Call to Mourning</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/954.htm" title="954: hō·ḇî·šū (V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- To be ashamed. A primitive root; properly, to pale, i.e. By implication to be ashamed; also to be disappointed or delayed.">Be dismayed,</a> <a href="/hebrew/406.htm" title="406: ’ik·kā·rîm (N-mp) -- A plowman, husbandman. From an unused root meaning to dig; a farmer.">O farmers,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3213.htm" title="3213: hê·lî·lū (V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- To howl, make a howling. A primitive root; to howl or yell.">wail,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3755.htm" title="3755: kō·rə·mîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To tend vineyards, dress vines. Active participle of an imaginary denominative from kerem; a vinedresser.">O vinedressers,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">over</a> <a href="/hebrew/2406.htm" title="2406: ḥiṭ·ṭāh (N-fs) -- Wheat. Of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant.">the wheat</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/8184.htm" title="8184: śə·‘ō·rāh (N-fs) -- Barley. Or snowrah; and; also s or; or s-owr; from sa'ar in the sense of roughness; barley.">barley,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/7105.htm" title="7105: qə·ṣîr (N-msc) -- From qatsar; severed, i.e. Harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb.">the harvest</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: śā·ḏeh (N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">of the field</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: ’ā·ḇaḏ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">has perished.</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Isaiah 17:10-11</a></span><br />For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Jeremiah 12:13</a></span><br />They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm">Amos 5:16-17</a></span><br />Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. / There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/haggai/1-10.htm">Haggai 1:10-11</a></span><br />Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. / I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/8-10.htm">Zechariah 8:10-12</a></span><br />For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor. / But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts. / “For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-40</a></span><br />You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. / You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. / You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-12</a></span><br />The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/27-30.htm">Ezekiel 27:30-31</a></span><br />They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes. / They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2</a></span><br />The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm">Malachi 3:11</a></span><br />I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-7.htm">Matthew 13:7</a></span><br />Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/4-7.htm">Mark 4:7</a></span><br />Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/8-7.htm">Luke 8:7</a></span><br />Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-20.htm">Romans 8:20-22</a></span><br />For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope / that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. / We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/5-1.htm">James 5:1-5</a></span><br />Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. / Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Be you ashamed, O you farmers; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.</p><p class="hdg">ashamed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Jeremiah 14:3,4</a></b></br> And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, <i>and</i> found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/5-5.htm">Romans 5:5</a></b></br> And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.</p><p class="hdg">because.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm">Isaiah 17:11</a></b></br> In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: <i>but</i> the harvest <i>shall be</i> a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/9-12.htm">Jeremiah 9:12</a></b></br> Who <i>is</i> the wise man, that may understand this? and <i>who is he</i> to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth <i>and</i> is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/10-6.htm">Ashamed</a> <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/daniel/5-9.htm">Confounded</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Cries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-27.htm">Despair</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/hosea/13-14.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm">Farmers</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Field</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/joel/1-8.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/ezekiel/9-4.htm">Grieve</a> <a href="/hosea/6-11.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Howl</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm">Husbandmen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-14.htm">Keepers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/37-11.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/hosea/8-7.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/hosea/10-6.htm">Shamed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-12.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/job/31-39.htm">Tillers</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm">Vinedressers</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm">Vine-Dressers</a> <a href="/hosea/2-15.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-10.htm">Vineyard</a> <a href="/joel/1-8.htm">Wail</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-13.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/hosea/6-8.htm">Workers</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/2-26.htm">Ashamed</a> <a href="/john/6-9.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/micah/3-7.htm">Confounded</a> <a href="/amos/1-14.htm">Cries</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-7.htm">Despair</a> <a href="/amos/2-9.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/joel/1-15.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Farmers</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Field</a> <a href="/amos/1-2.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/amos/5-17.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/amos/6-6.htm">Grieve</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Howl</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Husbandmen</a> <a href="/amos/1-2.htm">Keepers</a> <a href="/joel/1-17.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/haggai/1-10.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/joel/2-26.htm">Shamed</a> <a href="/micah/5-5.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/job/31-39.htm">Tillers</a> <a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/2_kings/25-12.htm">Vinedressers</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Vine-Dressers</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/micah/1-6.htm">Vineyard</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Wail</a> <a href="/joel/2-24.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/matthew/7-23.htm">Workers</a><div class="vheading2">Joel 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-1.htm">Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm">and to mourn.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm">He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/joel/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/joel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/joel/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Be dismayed, O farmers</b><br>The call for farmers to be dismayed reflects the severe impact of the locust plague described earlier in the chapter. In ancient Israel, agriculture was the backbone of the economy, and farmers were crucial to the community's survival. The dismay indicates a deep sense of loss and helplessness, as their livelihood and sustenance are threatened. This phrase also serves as a call to repentance, urging the people to recognize the spiritual implications of the disaster.<p><b>Wail, O vinedressers</b><br>Vinedressers were responsible for tending vineyards, a significant part of Israel's agricultural output. The command to wail underscores the emotional and economic devastation caused by the plague. Vineyards were often associated with joy and celebration, as wine was a staple in religious and social gatherings. The destruction of the vineyards symbolizes a loss of joy and prosperity, echoing the lamentation found in other prophetic books like Isaiah and Jeremiah.<p><b>Over the wheat and barley</b><br>Wheat and barley were staple grains in ancient Israel, essential for daily sustenance and religious offerings. The mention of these grains highlights the comprehensive nature of the disaster, affecting both basic needs and spiritual practices. Wheat and barley were harvested at different times, indicating that the plague's impact was prolonged and devastating. This aligns with the broader biblical theme of God's judgment affecting all aspects of life.<p><b>Because the harvest of the field has perished</b><br>The perishing of the harvest signifies a complete and utter loss, not just a temporary setback. In the biblical context, a failed harvest was often seen as a sign of divine displeasure or judgment. This phrase connects to the covenantal relationship between God and Israel, where obedience brought blessings, and disobedience led to curses, as outlined in Deuteronomy. The perished harvest serves as a tangible reminder of the consequences of turning away from God, urging the people to return to Him in repentance and faith.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/f/farmers.htm">Farmers</a></b><br>Individuals who cultivate the land and grow crops. In the context of Joel, they are experiencing devastation due to a locust plague.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/v/vinedressers.htm">Vinedressers</a></b><br>Workers who tend to vineyards, responsible for the care and harvesting of grapes. They are also affected by the destruction of their crops.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/w/wheat_and_barley.htm">Wheat and Barley</a></b><br>Staple crops in ancient Israel, essential for daily sustenance and economic stability. Their destruction signifies a severe crisis.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/h/harvest.htm">Harvest</a></b><br>The time of gathering mature crops from the fields. The failure of the harvest represents a significant loss and a call to repentance.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_land_of_judah.htm">The Land of Judah</a></b><br>The setting of Joel's prophecy, where the people are called to recognize the judgment of God through natural calamities.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/r/recognition_of_divine_judgment.htm">Recognition of Divine Judgment</a></b><br>The devastation of crops in <a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11</a> serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty and the consequences of sin. Believers are called to recognize when God is using circumstances to draw them back to Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The lament of the farmers and vinedressers is a call to repentance. In times of crisis, Christians should examine their lives and turn back to God with sincere hearts.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god_for_provision.htm">Dependence on God for Provision</a></b><br>The loss of the harvest highlights the need for reliance on God rather than solely on human efforts or natural resources. Trust in God's provision is essential.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_lament_and_prayer.htm">Community Lament and Prayer</a></b><br>The communal aspect of the lament in Joel encourages believers to come together in prayer and seek God's mercy during difficult times.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a></b><br>While <a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11</a> speaks of destruction, the broader message of Joel includes the promise of restoration. Christians can find hope in God's ability to restore and renew.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_joel_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Joel 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_it_sinful_for_him.htm">What does the Bible say about early and latter rain?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'not_my_will'_mean.htm">What do 'Latter Rain' and 'Former Rain' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_joel_1_10-12's_devastation_exaggerated.htm">Is the total devastation of crops and vines in Joel 1:10-12 consistent with known environmental events, or does it seem exaggerated when compared to historical data on locust plagues?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_shows_jesus_as_god's_beloved_son.htm">What does 'Lord of the harvest' mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joel/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 11, 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen</span>. The verb from <span class="hebrew">בּושׁ</span> (formed from <span class="hebrew">יַבֵשׁ</span>), to be or feel ashamed, or turn pale with shame; <span class="hebrew">חָפֵר</span> is "to blush or turn red with shame." It is written defectively, to distinguish it from <span class="hebrew">הובִישׁ</span>, which occurs in the tenth verse and again in the twelfth, and which is the Hiph. of <span class="hebrew">יָבֵשׁ</span>, to be parched or dried up. Their hope was disappointed through the destruction of their wheat and barley - their most serviceable and valuable cereals; while disappointment of hope causes shame; hence we read of a "hope that maketh not ashamed, because it never disappoints as empty hopes do. <span class="cmt_word">Howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the harley; because the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth</span>. There is a transposition here which is a species of the figure <span class="accented">ehiasmus</span>, so called from the form of the Greek letter <span class="accented">chi</span> (<span class="greek">χ</span>). The husbandmen are put to shame on account of the destruction of the wheat and barley - the entire failure of their field crops and ruin of their harvest; while the vinedressers have reason to howl because of the loss of their vines and the languishing of their fig trees. The prophet, after particularizing the vine and fig tree, proceeds with the enumeration of other important fruit trees that had perished by the teeth of the locusts. <span class="cmt_word">The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered</span>. The pomegranate, though abundant in that region, had shared the fate of the fig and vine; even the palm tree, the date palm, though a vigorous tree and little subject to injury, having no juice in the leaves or fresh greenness in the rind, ceased to flourish; and the apple tree - the medicinal apple, as Virgil terms it - suffered in like manner. Nor was it the fruit trees only that were injured; the hardier forest or timber trees - all the trees of the field - shared in the calamity. Thus Jerome represents the prophet as asking, "Why should I speak of the corn, wine, oil, and barley? when even the fruits of the trees have been dried up, the fig trees have languished, with the pomegranate and palm and apple; and all trees, whether fruit-bearing or not, are consumed by the devastating locusts." <span class="cmt_word">Because joy is withered away from the sons of men</span>. This clause is connected by" because" with "howl," the intermediate words being treated parenthetically or passed over. Joy here is either <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> literal; while "withered" is figurative, and signifies "has ceased or been taken away;" or <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> "joy" is figurative, denoting the means of joy, and" withered" may then be understood literally. The <span class="accented">rain</span>, from, is a pregnant construction, that is, "is withered from" being equivalent to "is withered and <span class="accented">taken away</span> from" the sons of men. Thus Kimchi: "<span class="accented">Because joy</span> <span class="accented">is withered - is withered</span>, as if he said, 'it has ceased because the products and the fruits are the joy of the sons of men,' and so Jonathan explains it, 'because joy has ceased;' or the meaning of 'withered' may be by way of figure." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/joel/1-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Be dismayed,</span><br /><span class="heb">הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hō·ḇî·šū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_954.htm">Strong's 954: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O farmers,</span><br /><span class="heb">אִכָּרִ֗ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ik·kā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_406.htm">Strong's 406: </a> </span><span class="str2">A plowman, husbandman</span><br /><br /><span class="word">wail,</span><br /><span class="heb">הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(hê·lî·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3213.htm">Strong's 3213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To howl, make a howling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O vinedressers,</span><br /><span class="heb">כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(kō·rə·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3755.htm">Strong's 3755: </a> </span><span class="str2">To tend vineyards, dress vines</span><br /><br /><span class="word">over</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the wheat</span><br /><span class="heb">חִטָּ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(ḥiṭ·ṭāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2406.htm">Strong's 2406: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wheat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעַל־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">barley,</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׂעֹרָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(śə·‘ō·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8184.htm">Strong's 8184: </a> </span><span class="str2">Barley</span><br /><br /><span class="word">because</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the harvest</span><br /><span class="heb">קְצִ֥יר</span> <span class="translit">(qə·ṣîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7105.htm">Strong's 7105: </a> </span><span class="str2">Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the field</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂדֶֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(śā·ḏeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> </span><span class="str2">Field, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has perished.</span><br /><span class="heb">אָבַ֖ד</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇaḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/joel/1-11.htm">OT Prophets: Joel 1:11 Be confounded you farmers! 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