The Meaning of Joel 1:11 Explained

Joel 1:11

KJV: 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.

YLT: Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.

Darby: Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.

ASV: Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Joel 1:11?

MEANING: What does Joel 1:11 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Joel 1:11 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Joel 1:11?

What is the context of Joel 1:11?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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.

What does Joel 1:11 Mean?

Context Summary

Joel 1:1-20 - A Summons To Penitence

We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory of God's loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man's boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world-empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to lay waste the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession. There are days in national experience when it becomes us to gird ourselves and lament. The ministers and elders of the Church should lead the way. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the wanton world, then joy withers away, Joel 1:12, spiritual worship ceases, Joel 1:9, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return. [source]

Chapter Summary: Joel 1

¹ Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,
⁸ and to mourn
¹⁴ He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments

What do the individual words in Joel 1:11 mean?

Be ashamed you plowmen Wail you vinedressers for the wheat and the barley because has perished the harvest of the field

הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ אִכָּרִ֗ים הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים עַל־ חִטָּ֖ה וְעַל־ שְׂעֹרָ֑ה כִּ֥י אָבַ֖ד קְצִ֥יר שָׂדֶֽה

הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ	Be ashamed
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine plural Root: בֹּושׁ Sense: to put to shame, be ashamed, be disconcerted, be disappointed.
אִכָּרִ֗ים	you plowmen
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: אִכָּר Sense: plowman, husbandman, farmer.
הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙	Wail
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine plural Root: יָלַל Sense: (Hiphil) to howl, wail, make a howling.
כֹּֽרְמִ֔ים	you vinedressers
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural Root: כָּרַם Sense: to tend vines or vineyards, to dress vines or vineyards.
חִטָּ֖ה	the wheat
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: חִטָּה Sense: wheat.
שְׂעֹרָ֑ה	the barley
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: שְׂעֹרָה Sense: barley.
כִּ֥י	because
Parse: Conjunction Root: כִּי Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אָבַ֖ד	has perished
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: אָבַד Sense: perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed.
קְצִ֥יר	the harvest
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: קָצִיר Sense: harvest, harvesting.
שָׂדֶֽה	of the field
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שָׂדֶה Sense: field, land.

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Similar Scriptures for Joel 1:11

		Jeremiah 14:3-4 [5]
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