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Joel 1:19–20

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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.

1:20Even the wild animals61 cry out to you;62

for the river beds63 have dried up;

fire has destroyed64 the grassy pastures.65

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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.
  6. 61 Heb “beasts of the field.”
  7. 62 Heb “long for you.” Animals of course do not have religious sensibilities as such; they do not in any literal sense long for Yahweh. Rather, the language here is figurative (metonymy of cause for effect). The animals long for food and water (so 788 עָרַג), the ultimate source of which is Yahweh.
  8. 63 Heb “sources of water.”
  9. 64 Heb “consumed.”
  10. 65 Heb “the pastures of the wilderness.”

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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.

Even the beasts of the field pant for you

because the water brooks are dried up,

and fire has devoured

the pastures of the wilderness.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

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.

Even the wild animals pant for you;

the streams of water have dried up

and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

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.

Even the wild animals cry out to you,

for the river beds are dried up,

and fire has consumed

the pastures of the wilderness.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Lord, help us!

The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures,

and flames have burned up all the trees.

Even the wild animals cry out to you

because the streams have dried up,

and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

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.

Also, the beasts of the field

long for you,

because the courses of water

are dried up,

and fire has devoured

the pastures of the desert.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

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.

The 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.

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