Joel 1:10 (WEB)

Passage

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Nearby Context

Joel 1:8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Joel 1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

Joel 1:10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Joel 1:11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "field", "laid", "waste", "land", "mourns", "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..." into verse 11's "Be confounded you farmers Wail you vineyard...", 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.