“The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.”
Joel 1:10 (BSB)
Context Reading
8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. 9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. 10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. 11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. 12The 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.