Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark.
New American Standard Bible
And my fig tree
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
King James Version
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Holman Bible
and splintered My fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
A Conservative Version
He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches of it are made white.
American Standard Version
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Amplified
It has made My vine (My people) a waste and object of horror,
And splintered and broken My fig tree.
It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away;
Their branches have become white.
Bible in Basic English
By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
Darby Translation
He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
Julia Smith Translation
He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.
King James 2000
He has laid my vine waste, and splintered my fig tree: he has stripped it bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown [them] down; their branches have turned white.
Modern King James verseion
He has laid My vine waste and splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it and cast it away; its branches grow white.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall make my vineyard waste, they shall pull off the bark of my fig trees, strip them bare, cast them away, and make the branches white.
NET Bible
They have destroyed our vines; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; the twigs are stripped bare.
New Heart English Bible
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath turned my vine to a waste, and my fig-tree to splinters, - he hath, barked it clean, and cast it down, bleached are its branches.
Webster
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.
World English Bible
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
Youngs Literal Translation
It hath made my vine become a desolation, And my fig-tree become a chip, It hath made it thoroughly bare, and hath cast down, Made white have been its branches.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 1:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament Over The Land
6 Indeed, a nation has invaded my land it is strong and its population is too large to count with teeth like a lion and fangs like a lioness. 7 That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark. 8 "Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.
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Cross References
Isaiah 5:6
I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."
Joel 1:12
The grapevine is shriveled and the fig tree is withered, along with the pomegranate tree, the palm tree, the apple tree and all of the cultivated trees. Truly, joy has evaporated from Adam's children."
Exodus 10:15
They covered the surface of the entire land so that it was dark. They ate all the vegetation of the land and the fruit from the trees that the hail left. Nothing green was left on the trees or on the vegetation in all the land of Egypt.
Psalm 105:33
It destroyed their vines and their figs, breaking trees throughout their country.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan.
Jeremiah 8:13
"I would have gathered them," declares the LORD, "but there were no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and their leaves were withered. What I've given them has been taken away."'"
Hosea 2:12
I'll destroy her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, "These are the earnings that my lovers paid me. I'll make them grow into a forest, and the wild animals will eat from them.'
Amos 4:9
"I afflicted you with blight and fungus; and the locust swarm devoured the harvest of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees, but you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
Habakkuk 3:17
Even though the fig tree does not blossom, and there are no grapes on the vines; even if the olive harvest fails, and the fields produce nothing edible; even if the flock is snatched from the sheepfold, and there is no herd in the stalls