The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les semences ont séché sous les mottes; Les greniers sont vides, Les magasins sont en ruines, Car il n'y a point de blé.
KJV
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Gregorius I Magnus
Homiliarum In Evangelia Libri Duo
nim carnis stercora vocantur. Unde et per prophetam dicitur : Computruerunt jumenta in stercore suo (Joel. 1, 17). Jumenta quippe in stercore suo computrescere est carnales quosque in fetore guriævitam finire. Nos itaque quoties carnalem mentem de suis peccatis increpamus, quotie…
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
like a beast before you" Psalm 73:22, sometimes indulgent, as in: "The beasts rotted in their dung" Joel 1:17. Horse, a holy man. In Habakkuk: "You ride on your horses" Habakkuk 3:8. And in a negative sense: "A horse is a false hope for salvation" Psalm 33:17, referring to anyone…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
unt ossa mea (Ibid. vers. 3) . Et iterum cum alio propheta: Computruerunt jumenta in stercore suo (Joel. I, 17) . Quid est (autem) jumenta in stercore suo putrescere, nisi criminosos quosque in putredine peccatorum suorum jacere? Qui peccat, jacet; qui confitetur, surgit [ Cod.…
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