Joel 1:9
The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house. 1 The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn. 1
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8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 13:10But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests, descendants of Aaron, serving Yahweh, and the Levites, who are at their work.
Lamentations 1:4The roads of Zion mourn because none come to the appointed feasts. 1 All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan. 1 Her virgins are sorrowful and she herself is in complete distress. 1
Hosea 9:4They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh, 1 neither will they be pleasing to him. 1 Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food: 1 all who eat it will be defiled. 1 For their food will be for themselves only; 1 it will not come into the house of Yahweh. 1
Joel 1:16Has not food been cut off from before our eyes, 1 and joy and gladness from the house of our God? 1
Joel 2:17Let the priests, the servants of Yahweh, 1 weep between the porch and the altar. 1 Let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, 1 and do not make your inheritance into an object of scorn, 1 that the nations mock them. 1 Why should they say among the nations, 1 'Where is their God?'” 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 →