Joel 1:16
Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:6And ye shall carry thither your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first-fruits, and your + 12:6 Gr. vows.vowed-offerings, and your freewill-offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the first-born of your herds, and of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God, accordingly as thy hand has power in as many things as the Lord thy God shall give thee.
Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in thy cities.
Psalms 105:3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.
Isaiah 62:8For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
Joel 1:13Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:15-20
Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. ( b. c. 720.) 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord , 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are… Read the whole commentary →