Joel 1:18

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

How the cattle groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because there is no pasture unto them; even the flocks of the sheep suffer punishment.

Latin

Quid ingemuit animal, mugierunt greges armenti? quia non est pascua eis; sed et greges pecorum disperierunt.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Joel 1:18

The people of Judah struggled because of the famine. Even sheep and goats, which can survive on little food, cried out because they had nothing to eat.

Joel 1:1–2:17

The prophet Joel describes a severe locust plague that struck Judah and Jerusalem.

Theme notes and profiles

Famine The Day of the Lord

Events

Prophecies of Joelc. 820 BC

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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.
Jeremiah 12:4
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.”
Jeremiah 14:5–6
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Joel 1:20
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
1 Kings 18:5
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.”

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