Joel 1:16

Has not food been cut off from before our eyes, 1 and joy and gladness from the house of our God? 1

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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! 1 For the day of Yahweh is almost here. 1 With it will come destruction from the Almighty. 1

17The seeds rot under their clods, 1 the granaries are desolate, 1 and the barns have been broken down, 1 for the grain has withered. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:6It is there that you will bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offerings presented by your hand, your offerings for vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deuteronomy 16:10You must keep the Festival of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the contribution of a freewill offering from your hand that you will give, according as Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16:14You will rejoice during your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

Psalms 105:3Boast in his holy name; 1 let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 1

Isaiah 62:8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, 1 “Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies. 1 Foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have worked. 1

Joel 1:13Put 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

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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