Joel 1:9 “Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD…”

Joel 1:9

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

World English Bible

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

American Standard Version

The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

Geneva Bible 1599

The meate offring, and the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lords ministers mourne.

Darby Translation

The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

Young's Literal Translation

Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

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Cross references

“meat”

Joel 2:14 Joel 1:13 Hosea 9:4 Joel 1:16

Joel 2:14 · BSB

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

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.

Hosea 9:4 · BSB

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will no…

Joel 1:16 · BSB

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

“the priests”

Joel 2:17 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 1:4

Joel 2:17 · BSB

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say…

Lamentations 1:16 · BSB

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

“the Lord's”

Isaiah 61:6 2 Chronicles 13:10 Exodus 28:1

Isaiah 61:6 · BSB

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

2 Chronicles 13:10 · BSB

But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

Exodus 28:1 · BSB

“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

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

In context

8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

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