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Joel 1:17

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The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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  1. Joel 1:15

    Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  2. Joel 1:16

    Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

  3. Joel 1:18

    How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  4. Joel 1:19

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.