Joe 1:11 | CPDV | STEP | The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:11

11 The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. ^{▼▼1:11The vineyard workers (or vintners) wail over the fruit of the vine, because that is their work, and over the barley, because that is their food. In Biblical times, barley was the food of the working poor. The text implies that the ‘frumento’ is the crop of the ‘vinitores,’ so the use of ‘their’ in the translation is fitting.(Conte)}