Joel 1:9

Grief

⁷ It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

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

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.

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

¹¹ Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: 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.
KJV: The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
WEB: The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
ASV: The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah`s ministers, mourn.
DARBY: The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
BLB: The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH; the priests mourn—those ministering to YHWH.

ÅB: Matoffer og drikkoffer er revet bort fra Herrens hus; prestene, Herrens tjenere, sørger.
OTB: Grødeofferet og drikkofferet er avskåret
fra Herrens hus.
Prestene sørger,
de som tjener foran Herren.
B1930: Matoffer og drikkoffer er revet bort fra Herrens hus; prestene, Herrens tjenere, sørger.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Joel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
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Joel 2:17
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 among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
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Hosea 9:4
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 not enter the house of the LORD.
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Joel 1:13
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.
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Isaiah 61:6
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.
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Lamentations 1:16
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.
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2 Chronicles 13:10
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.
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Lamentations 1:4
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.
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