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Joel 1:9

Grief

7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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

10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

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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.

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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 knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

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  • Joel 2:17

    Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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  • Hosea 9:4

    They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

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  • Joel 1:13

    Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

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  • Isaiah 61:6

    But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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  • Lamentations 1:16

    For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

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  • 2 Chronicles 13:10

    But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

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  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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