Joel 1:16

Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? and ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

Geneva Bible 1599

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, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.

17The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:6And ye shall bring thither your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offring of your hands, and your vowes, and your free offrings, and the first borne of your kine and of your sheepe.

Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God, euen a free gift of thine hand, which thou shalt giue vnto the Lord thy God, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt reioyce in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, and thy maid, and the Leuite, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Psalms 105:3Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.

Isaiah 62:8The Lord hath sworne by his right hand and by his strong arme, Surely I wil no more giue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, and surely the sonnes of the strangers shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.

Joel 1:13Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away 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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