The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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.
- 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 This devastation underscores that all earthly provision depends on God's sustaining hand and is withdrawn when He judges.
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- Hos 4:3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
- Jer 12:11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- Hos 9:2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
- Joel 1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- Jer 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Joel 1:17–20The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- Joel 1:12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- Jer 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
- Lev 26:20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
- Hag 1:11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
- Jer 14:2–6Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Isa 24:11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Isa 24:3–4The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
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