Joe 1:17 | NET2full | STEP | The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels . Storehouses have been decimated , and granaries have been torn down because the grain has dried up .

‏ Joel 1:17

17 The grains of seed ^{▼▼tn Heb “seed.” The phrase “the grains of” does not appear in the Hebrew but has been supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.} have shriveled beneath their shovels. ^{▼▼tc This line is textually uncertain. The MT reads, “the seed shrivels in their shovels/clods.” One Qumran manuscript (4QXXIIc) reads, “the heifers decay in [their] s[talls].” LXX reads, “the heifers leap in their stalls.”} ^{▼▼tn These two lines of v. 17 comprise only four words in the Hebrew; three of the four are found only here in the OT. The translation and meaning are rather uncertain. A number of English versions render the word translated “shovels” as “clods,” referring to lumps of soil (e.g., KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).}
Storehouses have been decimated,
and granaries have been torn down
because the grain has dried up.