Joel 1:18
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How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
In other translations
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
Hebrew words
מַה־mah-how!H4100נֶּאֶנְחָהne'enchahit has groanedH584בְהֵמָהvehemah[the] livestockH929נָבֹכוּnavokhuthey have wandered in confusionH943עֶדְרֵי'edrei[the] herds ofH5739בָקָרvakarcattleH1241כִּיkiforH3588אֵין'einnotH369מִרְעֶהmir'ehpastureH4829לָהֶםlahem[belongs] to themגַּם־gam-alsoH1571עֶדְרֵי'edrei[the] flocks ofH5739הַצֹּאןhatzon<the> sheepH6629נֶאְשָׁמוּ׃ne'shamuthey have sufferedH816
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Related verses
- Jeremiah 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Hosea 4:3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Jeremiah 14:5-65 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.5 Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- Joel 1:20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
- 1 Kings 18:5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
- Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
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