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Joel 1:17

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel 1:17 · King James Version

In other versions

  • The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

    ASV

  • The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    BBE

  • The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

    DBY

  • The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

    WEB

  • Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

    YLT

  • The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

    ENG

  • The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

    WBT

  • The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

    BSB

In context

15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

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