Joel 1:10 (ASV)

Passage

The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Nearby Context

Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:9 The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah`s ministers, mourn.

Joel 1:10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Joel 1:11 Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:12 The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "field", "laid", "waste", "land", "mourneth", "grain", "destroyed", and "wine". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "field" and "laid", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut..." into verse 11's "Be confounded O ye husbandmen wail O...", so "field" and "laid" belong inside that flow. In Joel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "field" and "laid" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.