Joel 1:17

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

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

In context

16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

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