17The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.


In Context

14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord .

15 Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

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

17 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.

18 How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

19 To you, O Lord , I call, for fire has devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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