Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
ashamed	יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh	H3001	to be ashamed
husbandmen	אִכָּרִ֗ים 'i.ka.Rim	H406	a farmer · noun, common masculine plural absolute
howl	הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ hei.Li.lu	H3213	to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterou… · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural
vinedressers	כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים ko.re.Mim	H3755	a vinedresser · noun, common masculine plural absolute
wheat	חִטָּ֖ה chi.Tah	H2406	wheat · noun, common feminine singular absolute
barley	שְׂעֹרָ֑ה se.'o.Rah	H8184	barley (as villose) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
harvest	קְצִ֥יר ke.Tzir	H7105	severed · noun, common masculine singular construct
field	שָׂדֶֽה sa.Deh	H7704	a field (as flat) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
perished	אָבַ֖ד 'a.Vad	H6	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 14:3-4 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empt…
Isaiah 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in th…
Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the…
Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! a…
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:8-13

The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the better borne), but it shall deprive others of their necessary subsistence, who are therefore called to lament (Joe 1:8), as a virgin laments the death of her lover to whom she was espoused, but not completely married, yet so that he was in effect her husband, or as a young woman lately married, from whom the husband of her youth, her young husband, or the husband to whom she was married when she was young, is suddenly taken away by death. Between a new-married couple that are young, that marrie…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:11

Be . . . ashamed--that is, Ye shall have the shame of disappointment on account of the failure of "the wheat" and "barley . . . harvest." howl . . . vine dressers--The semicolon should follow, as it is the "husbandmen" who are to be "ashamed . . . for the wheat." The reason for the "vine dressers" being called to "howl" does not come till Joe 1:12, "The vine is dried up."

John Gill on Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen,.... Tillers of the land, who have took a great deal of pains in cultivating the earth, dunging, ploughing, and sowing it; confusion may cover you, because of your disappointment, the increase not answering to your expectations and labours: howl, O ye vinedressers; that worked in the vineyards, set the vines, watered and pruned them, and, when they had done all they could to them, were dried up with the drought, or devoured by the locusts, as they were destroyed by the Assyrians or Chaldeans; and therefore had reason to howl and lament, all their labour being lost: for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field is perished; this belongs to…

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John Calvin on Joel 1:11

Joel 1:11 11. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 11. Erubescite agricolae, ululate vinitores super tritico et hordeo; quia periit messis agri. The Prophet says nothing new here, but only strengthens what he had said before, and is not wordy without reason; for he intends here not merely to teach, but also to produce an effect: And this is the design of heavenly teaching; for God not only wishes that what he says may be understood, but intends also to penetrate into our hearts: and the word of God, we know, consists not of doctrine only, but also of exhortations, and threatenings, and repr…

The Church Fathers

Describing the calamity at greater length to bring to repentance those suffering from indifference, he bids even the produce to lament the failure of the barley and the wheat and the defoliation of the vine, and in general the lack of fruit on olives and figs and the other fruit trees due to their being deprived of moisture. Now it should be understood that he instructs the land and the produce to lament, not as rational creatures but in his attempt to rouse those endowed with reason through the inanimate creatures. To emphasize this, he went on, "because human beings confounded joy," that is, the cause of the infertility is people's lawlessness—hence the end of happiness and the onset of depression.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON JOEL 1:11–12

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Agriculture · Fruits blasted be — Fruits blasted be
Agriculture Or Husbandry · Produce of, often blasted because of sin — Produce of, often blasted because of sin
Famine · Caused: Grief and mourning — Caused: Grief and mourning
Harvest, The · Failure of: A cause of great grief — Failure of: A cause of great grief
Nation · Chastised — Chastised

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Joel 1:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:8-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:11

John Gill on Joel 1:11

John Calvin on Joel 1:11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Joel 1:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:8-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:11

John Gill on Joel 1:11

John Calvin on Joel 1:11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Joel 1:8-12

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joel 1:10