Joel 1:17

Joel 1:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
• New International Version (NIV)The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.

Context of Joel 1:17

15Be afraid because of that day. Be afraid because the day of the Lord is near. It will be as if the great God would destroy everything. 16No food has come. We saw this with our own eyes. The house of our God cannot make us happy. The seeds under the earth are dry. The places where they were stored have fallen down. Someone has broken them up because the seed does not grow. 18The cows make a sad noise. They all move about because they cannot find any grass. Even groups of sheep are hungry. 19I speak to you, my Lord. Fire has destroyed the grass in the wilderness, and it has burned up all the trees.

Joel 1:17 word by word

עָבְשׁ֣וּ פְרֻד֗וֹת תַּ֚חַת מֶגְרְפֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ אֹֽצָר֔וֹת נֶהֶרְס֖וּ מַמְּגֻר֑וֹת כִּ֥י הֹבִ֖ישׁ דָּגָֽן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The seedפְּרֻדָהperûdâh · grainH6507
• is rottenעָבַשׁ‛âbash · to shrivelH5685
• under their clodsמֶגְרָפָהmigrâphâh · clodH4053
• the garnersאוֹצָר'ôtsâr · treasureH214
• are laid desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• the barnsמַמְּגֻרוֹתmammegûrâh · granaryH4460
• are broken downהָרַסhâras · to overthrowH2040
• for the cornדָּגָןdâgân · grainH1715
• is witheredיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001

Cross-references for Joel 1:17

• Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed to the price that Ephron had asked for. He weighed the correct amount of silver to give to Ephron. The Hittites there knew that it had been done properly. The weight of 400 shekels agreed with the weights that people used at that time.

Commentaries on Joel 1:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17The seed is rotten under their clods - When the sprout was cut off as low as possible by the locusts, there was no farther germination. The seed rotted away.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17The seed is rotten under the clods - Not only was all to be cut off for the present, but, with it, all hope for the future. The scattered seed, as it lay, each under its clod known to God, was dried up, and so decayed. The garners lay desolate, nay, were allowed to go to ruin, in hopelessness of any future harvest.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purpose; a day in which people must be kept from their common employments, that they may more closely attend God's services; and there is to be abstaining from meat and drink. Every one had added to the national guilt, all shared in the national calamity…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17Plague and drought destroyed the food supply, leaving the barns with no stored grain.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. is rotten--"is dried up," "vanishes away," from an Arabic root [Maurer]. "Seed," literally, "grains." The drought causes the seeds to lose all their vitality and moisture. garners--granaries; generally underground, and divided into separate receptacles for the different kinds of grain.Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 1:17

• Barn
• Famine
• Nation

In the dictionaries

• Cellar
• Garner
• Barn
• Clod
• Joel (2)
• Rot; Rottenness
• Seed

Commentaries on Joel 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings