Joel 1:12
Good News Translation
The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone.

New Revised Standard Version
The vine withers, the fig tree droops. Pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the field are dried up; surely, joy withers away among the people.

Contemporary English Version
Grapevines have dried up and so has every tree--figs and pomegranates, date palms and apples. All happiness has faded away.

New American Bible
The vine has dried up, the fig tree has withered; The pomegranate, even the date palm and the apple— every tree in the field has dried up. Joy itself has dried up among the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

The vine.

Joel 1:10 The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

Habakkuk 3:17,18 For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. . . .

the pomegranate.

Numbers 13:23 And forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:

Psalm 92:12 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Songs 4:13 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

Songs 7:7-9 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. . . .

joy.

Joel 1:16 Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Psalm 4:7 By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they are multiplied:

Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.

Isaiah 16:10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

Isaiah 24:11 There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.

Jeremiah 48:3 A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

Hosea 9:1,2 Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. . . .

Context
A Call to Mourning
11The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. 12The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.
Cross References
Songs 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Songs 7:8
I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples.

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

Isaiah 24:7
The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

Isaiah 24:11
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.

Jeremiah 48:33
Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.

Joel 1:10
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

Jonah 4:7
And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.

Habakkuk 3:17
For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

Haggai 2:19
Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day I will bless you.

Joel 1:11
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