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Joel 1:16

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

World English Bible

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

American Standard Version

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Geneva Bible 1599

Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? and ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

Darby Translation

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Young's Literal Translation

Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

Bible in Basic English

Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

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Cross references

“the meat”

Joel 1:5–9 Joel 1:13 Amos 4:6 Amos 4:7

Joel 1:5–9 · BSB

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:13 · BSB

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Amos 4:6 · BSB

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Amos 4:7 · BSB

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

“joy”

Psalm 43:4 Psalm 105:3 Deuteronomy 16:10–15 Deuteronomy 12:6 Deuteronomy 12:7 Deuteronomy 12:11

Psalm 43:4 · BSB

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Psalm 105:3 · BSB

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Deuteronomy 16:10–15 · BSB

And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,

Deuteronomy 12:6 · BSB

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deuteronomy 12:7 · BSB

There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:11 · BSB

then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to…

Also

Isaiah 3:7

Isaiah 3:7 · BSB

On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

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