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Joel 1:19

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1:19To you, O Lord, I call out for help,56

for fire57 has burned up58 the grassy pastures,59

flames have razed60 all the trees in the fields.

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Footnotes

  1. 56 The phrase “for help” does not appear in the Hebrew, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.
  2. 57 Fire here and in v. 20 is probably not to be understood in a literal sense. The locust plague, accompanied by conditions of extreme drought, has left the countryside looking as though everything has been burned up (so also in Joel 2:3).
  3. 58 Heb “consumed.” This entire line is restated at the end of v. 20.
  4. 59 Heb “the pastures of the wilderness.”
  5. 60 Heb “a flame has set ablaze.” This fire was one of the effects of the drought.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

To you, O Lord, I call.

For fire has devoured

the pastures of the wilderness,

and flame has burned

all the trees of the field.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

To you, Lord, I call,

for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness

and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I call to you, Lord,

for fire has consumed

the pastures of the wilderness,

and flames have devoured

all the trees of the orchard.

NLTNew Living Translation

Lord, help us!

The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures,

and flames have burned up all the trees.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

To you, O Yahweh, I cry out,

because fire has devoured

the pastures of the desert,

and flames burned

all the trees of the field.

KJV 1900King James Version

O Lord, to thee will I cry:

For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness,

And the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.