Joel 1:17
Good News Translation
The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.

New Revised Standard Version
The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.

Contemporary English Version
Seeds dry up in the ground; no harvest is possible. Our barns are in bad shape, with no grain to store in them.

New American Bible
The seed lies shriveled beneath clods of dirt; the storehouses are emptied. The granaries are broken down, for the grain is dried up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

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Genesis 23:16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

Context
A Call to Repentance
16Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.18Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:26
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.

Isaiah 17:11
In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.

Joel 1:16
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