Joel 1:12 “The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegrana…”

Joel 1:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

American Standard Version

The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Geneva Bible 1599

The vine is dried vp, and the figge tree is decayed: the pomegranate tree and the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered: surely the ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

Darby Translation

The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.

Young's Literal Translation

The vine hath been dried up, And the fig-tree doth languish, Pomegranate, also palm, and apple-tree, All trees of the field have withered, For dried up hath been joy from the sons of men.

Bible in Basic English

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

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Cross references

“The vine”

Joel 1:10 Habakkuk 3:17 Habakkuk 3:18

Joel 1:10 · BSB

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

Habakkuk 3:17 · BSB

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Habakkuk 3:18 · BSB

yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

“the pomegranate”

Song of Solomon 2:3 Numbers 13:23 Psalm 92:12 Song of Solomon 4:13 Song of Solomon 7:7–9

Song of Solomon 2:3 · BSB

Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Numbers 13:23 · BSB

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Psalm 92:12 · BSB

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:13 · BSB

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

Song of Solomon 7:7–9 · BSB

Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

“joy”

Isaiah 16:10 Isaiah 24:11 Joel 1:16 Psalm 4:7 Isaiah 9:3 Jeremiah 48:3

Isaiah 16:10 · BSB

Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.

Isaiah 24:11 · BSB

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Joel 1:16 · BSB

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Psalm 4:7 · BSB

You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.

Isaiah 9:3 · BSB

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

Jeremiah 48:3 · BSB

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Also

Haggai 2:19 Jeremiah 48:33

Haggai 2:19 · BSB

Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

Jeremiah 48:33 · BSB

Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Read Joel 1