Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! 1 Wail, you servants of the altar. 1 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. 1 For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God. 1

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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 vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up, 1 the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees— 1 all the trees of the field have withered. 1 For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind. 1

14Call for a holy fast, 1 and call a holy assembly. 1 Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land 1 to the house of Yahweh your God, 1 and cry to Yahweh. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 28:4One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer in the evening.

Numbers 28:14The people's drink offerings must be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is to be the burnt offering for every month throughout the months of the year.

2 Samuel 12:16David then implored God for the boy. David fasted and went inside and lay all night on the floor.

Isaiah 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1

Jeremiah 4:8Because of this, wrap yourself in sackcloth, lament and wail. 1 For the force of Yahweh's anger has not turned away from us. 1

Ezekiel 7:18and they will wear sackcloth, and terror will cover them; 1 and shame will be on every face, and baldness on all of their heads. 1

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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