Joël 1:11

11 Laboureurs, soyez confus; vignerons, gémissez, à cause du froment et de l'orge, car la moisson des champs est perdue.

Joël 1:11 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen
Tillers of the land, who have took a great deal of pains in cultivating the earth, dunging, ploughing, and sowing it; confusion may cover you, because of your disappointment, the increase not answering to your expectations and labours: howl, O ye vinedressers;
that worked in the vineyards, set the vines, watered and pruned them, and, when they had done all they could to them, were dried up with the drought, or devoured by the locusts, as they were destroyed by the Assyrians or Chaldeans; and therefore had reason to howl and lament, all their labour being lost: for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field is
perished;
this belongs to the husbandmen, is a reason for their shame and blushing, because the wheat and barley were destroyed before they were ripe; and so they had neither wheat nor barley harvest. The words, by a transposition, would read better, and the sense be clearer, "thus, be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest" "howl, O ye vine dressers"; for what follows:

Joël 1:11 In-Context

9 L'offrande et la libation sont retranchées de la maison de l'Éternel; les sacrificateurs qui font le service de l'Éternel sont dans le deuil.

10 Les champs sont ravagés, la terre est dans le deuil; car le froment est détruit, le moût est tari, et l'huile est desséchée.

11 Laboureurs, soyez confus; vignerons, gémissez, à cause du froment et de l'orge, car la moisson des champs est perdue.

12 La vigne est desséchée, le figuier est languissant; le grenadier, même le palmier et le pommier, tous les arbres des champs ont séché, et la joie a cessé parmi les fils des hommes!

13 Sacrificateurs, ceignez-vous, et menez deuil; vous qui faites le service de l'autel, lamentez-vous; vous qui faites le service de mon Dieu, entrez, passez la nuit revêtus de sacs. Car l'offrande et la libation sont supprimées de la maison de votre Dieu.