Joel 1:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:11 —

Old words in this verse

husbandman: — farmer, one who tends the land.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. …
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 the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
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! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 (Joel 1:8), as a virgin laments the death of her lover to whom she was espoused, but not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

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.”