Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye kohanim; 1 howl, ye mesharetim of the Mizbe'ach; 1 come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye mesharetim of my G-d; 1 for the minchah and the nesekh 1 is withheld from the Beis of your G-d. + 1:13 i.e., the Beis Hamikdash 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12The gefen is dried up, 1 and the teenah languisheth; 1 the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, 1 even all the trees of the sadeh, are withered; 1 because sasson (joy) is withered away from the bnei Adam. 1

14Sanctify ye a tzom (fast), call an atzarah (solemn assembly), 1 gather the zekenim and all the yoshvei ha'aretz 1 into the Beis Hashem Eloheichem, 1 and cry unto Hashem. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 28:4The one keves shalt thou offer in the boker, and the other keves shalt thou offer towards erev;

Numbers 28:14And their nesakhim shall be a half-hin for each bull, and the third-hin for the ram, and a quarter-hin for each keves: this is the olah (burnt offering) for every Rosh Chodesh throughout the months of the shanah (year).

2 Samuel 12:16Dovid therefore pleaded with HaElohim for the na'ar; and Dovid did a tzom, and went in, and lay all night upon ha'aretz.

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1

Jeremiah 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, 1 lament and wail; 1 for the charon af Hashem 1 is not turned away from us.

Ezekiel 7:18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and terror shall cover them; and bushah (shame) shall be upon all faces, and shaved scalps + 7:18 the sign of mourning upon all their heads.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:9-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 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. 12 The vine is dried up,… Read the whole commentary →

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