The Meaning of Joel 1:18 Explained

Joel 1:18

KJV: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

YLT: How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

Darby: How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.

ASV: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Joel 1:18?

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WORDS: What do the individual words in Joel 1:18 mean?

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What is the context of Joel 1:18?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

What does Joel 1:18 Mean?

Context Summary

Joel 1:1-20 - A Summons To Penitence

We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory of God's loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man's boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world-empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to lay waste the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession. There are days in national experience when it becomes us to gird ourselves and lament. The ministers and elders of the Church should lead the way. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the wanton world, then joy withers away, Joel 1:12, spiritual worship ceases, Joel 1:9, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return. [source]

Chapter Summary: Joel 1

¹ Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,
⁸ and to mourn
¹⁴ He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments

What do the individual words in Joel 1:18 mean?

How groan the animals are restless the herds of cattle because [there is] no pasture for them Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment

מַה־ ! נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֙כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מִרְעֶ֖ה לָהֶ֑ם גַּם־ עֶדְרֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ

מַה־	How
Parse: Interrogative Root: לָמָּה Sense: what, how, of what kind.
! נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה	groan
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person feminine singular Root: אָנַח Sense: (Niphal) sigh, groan (in pain or grief), gasp.
בְהֵמָ֗ה	the animals
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: בְּהֵמָה Sense: beast, cattle, animal.
נָבֹ֙כוּ֙	are restless
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural Root: בּוּךְ Sense: to perplex, confuse, be confused.
עֶדְרֵ֣י	the herds
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: עֵדֶר Sense: flock, herd.
בָקָ֔ר	of cattle
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: בָּקָר Sense: cattle, herd, oxen, ox.
כִּ֛י	because
Parse: Conjunction Root: כִּי Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אֵ֥ין	[there is] no
Parse: Adverb Root: אַיִן Sense: nothing, not, nought n.
מִרְעֶ֖ה	pasture
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: מִרְעֶה Sense: pasture, pasturage.
לָהֶ֑ם	for them
Parse: Preposition-l, Pronoun, third person masculine plural Root: הֵם Sense: they, these, the same, who.
גַּם־	Even
Parse: Conjunction Root: גַּם Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
עֶדְרֵ֥י	the flocks
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: עֵדֶר Sense: flock, herd.
הַצֹּ֖אן	of sheep
Parse: Article, Noun, common singular Root: צֹאן Sense: small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks.
נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ	suffer punishment
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural Root: אָשַׁם Sense: to offend, be guilty, trespass.

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