Joel 1:16

Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

15Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

17The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:6And you⌃ shall carry there your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first fruits, and your + 12:6 Gr. vows. vowed-offerings, and your free will offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the firstborn of your herds, and of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as the Lord your God shall give you.

Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities.

Psalms 105:3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times. 1

Isaiah 62:8For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give your corn and your provisions to your enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink your wine, for which you have laboured.

Joel 1:13Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you⌃ priests: mourn, you⌃ that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you⌃ 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 →

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