18 “But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.(A) 19 I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

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10 The fields are destroyed;(A)
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;(B)
and the olive oil fails.(C)
11 Be ashamed, you farmers,(D)
wail, you vinedressers,[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.(E)
12 The grapevine is dried up,(F)
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,(G) the date palm,(H) and the apple(I)
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail

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