7It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.


In Context

4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.

5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.

6 A nation has invaded my land, powerful and without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.

9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord . The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the Lord .

Joel 1:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches thereof are made white.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7It hath made my vine become a desolation, And my fig-tree become a chip, It hath made it thoroughly bare, and hath cast down, Made white have been its branches.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bore, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.