Joel 1:18 “How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have…”

Joel 1:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

Darby Translation

How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.

Young's Literal Translation

How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

Bible in Basic English

What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

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Cross references

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

Jeremiah 12:4 Hosea 4:3 Joel 1:20 1 Kings 18:5 Romans 8:22 Jeremiah 14:5

Jeremiah 12:4 · BSB

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Hosea 4:3 · BSB

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Joel 1:20 · BSB

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

1 Kings 18:5 · BSB

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

Romans 8:22 · BSB

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Jeremiah 14:5 · BSB

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

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

In context

17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

19To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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