Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joel 1:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
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Quick Meaning
This verse summons farmers and vine workers to grieve the ruined staple harvest.
Appetite, altar, and orchard fail on the same day
This verse is one part of that explanation in Joel 1:5–12. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Joel 1:5–12
Read Joel 1:5–12 together. This verse summons farmers and vine workers to grieve the ruined staple harvest. 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 This Verse Appears Here
By moving through different people and parts of creation, the poem makes communal lament proportionate to a disaster that no single group owns or escapes. Within that movement, this verse summons farmers and vine workers to grieve the ruined staple harvest.
What Remains True
Those closest to production are summoned to name the ruined harvest without disguise.
How It Can Shape Life
- Listen first to farmers and workers whose knowledge and livelihoods are directly affected by land loss.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Joel 1:5–12 — Vine, Field, Worship, Work, and Joy Wither TogetherSources used for this Verse Lens
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
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, numbering, historical, Day-of-the-LORD, Spirit, judgment, and restoration notes within the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Joel PDF, printed pp. 1696–1697, translation and translator notes on 1:5–12
Open source ↗