The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
Parallel translations
- KJV The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- BSB The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- 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 This devastation underscores that all earthly provision depends on God's sustaining hand and is withdrawn when He judges.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
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- Hos 4:3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
- Jer 12:11They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
- Hos 9:2The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
- Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- Jer 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
- Joel 1:17–20The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
- Joel 1:12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
- Jer 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, “He shall not see our latter end.”
- Lev 26:20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
- Hag 1:11I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
- Jer 14:2–6“Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
- Isa 24:11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
- Isa 24:3–4The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
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