Verse Lens · Context pointer
Joel 1:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
This verse lets field and land mourn as grain, wine, and oil fail together.
Read It With
- Joel 1:5–12
Read Joel 1:5–12 together. This verse lets field and land mourn as grain, wine, and oil fail together. Read Joel 1:5–12 as one complete prophetic movement: The calamity reaches appetite, agriculture, worship, labor, land, and emotion; Joel calls each affected group to wake, lament, and see the shared scale of loss.
Why It Needs Context
This line performs one step inside Joel 1:5–12; isolating it would detach the image or action from the unit's speaker, cause, response, and outcome. Specifically, this verse lets field and land mourn as grain, wine, and oil fail together.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joel 1:5–12 — Vine, Field, Worship, Work, and Joy Wither TogetherSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Joel 1:5–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew forms, morphology, repeated roots, clause relationships, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Joel.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:5–12
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