The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
Parallel translations
- WEB The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
- KJV The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- NKJV The field is wasted, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.
- NASB The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine has dried up, Fresh oil has failed.
- NLT The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed, the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone.
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Quick answer
The fields are ruined and the land itself mourns as grain, wine, and oil all fail. Creation shares in the desolation brought by God's judgment.
Overview
Grain, new wine, and oil were the staple blessings of the covenant land, and their failure signals comprehensive ruin. The land is poetically said to mourn, reflecting how creation suffers under the consequences of human sin (Romans 8:20-22). This devastation underscores that all earthly provision depends on God's sustaining hand and is withdrawn when He judges.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Hos 4:3Therefore 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.
- Jer 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Hos 9:2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
- Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Jer 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- Joel 1:17–20The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
- Joel 1:12The 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.
- Jer 12:4How 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.”
- Lev 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
- Hag 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
- Jer 14:2–6“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- Isa 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isa 24:3–4The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
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