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Joel 1:10

Context

1:10 The crops of the fields 1  have been destroyed. 2 

The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.

The fresh wine has dried up;

the olive oil languishes.

Joel 1:19

Context

1:19 To you, O Lord, I call out for help, 3 

for fire 4  has burned up 5  the grassy pastures, 6 

flames have razed 7  all the trees in the fields.

1 tn Heb “the field has been utterly destroyed.” The term “field,” a collective singular for “fields,” is a metonymy for crops produced by the fields.

2 tn Joel uses intentionally alliterative language in the phrases שֻׁדַּד שָׂדֶה (shuddad sadeh, “the field is destroyed”) and אֲבְלָה אֲדָמָה (’avlahadamah, “the ground is in mourning”).

3 tn The phrase “for help” does not appear in the Hebrew, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

4 sn Fire here and in v. 20 is probably not to be understood in a literal sense. The locust plague, accompanied by conditions of extreme drought, has left the countryside looking as though everything has been burned up (so also in Joel 2:3).

5 tn Heb “consumed.” This entire line is restated at the end of v. 20.

6 tn Heb “the pastures of the wilderness.”

7 tn Heb “a flame has set ablaze.” This fire was one of the effects of the drought.



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