Joel 1:16

Is not food cut off from before us, gladness and joy from the house of our God?

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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 for the day! Near at hand is the day of the Lord, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

17The grains shrivel under their hoes, the storehouses are desolate, the barns broken down, for the grain is withered.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:3Make your boast in his holy name, be glad at heart, you who seek the Lord.

Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off 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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