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Joel 1:20

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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. 61 Heb “beasts of the field.”
  2. 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.
  3. 63 Heb “sources of water.”
  4. 64 Heb “consumed.”
  5. 65 Heb “the pastures of the wilderness.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Even the wild animals pant for you;

the streams of water have dried up

and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Even the wild animals cry out to you,

for the river beds are dried up,

and fire has consumed

the pastures of the wilderness.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even the wild animals cry out to you

because the streams have dried up,

and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.