Joel 1:16
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes;joy and gladness from the house of our God?
New Heart English Bible
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:
Deuteronomy 16:10You shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the Lord your God blesses you:
Deuteronomy 16:14and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
Psalms 105:3Glory in his holy name.Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
Isaiah 62:8The Lord has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,"Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!Wail, you ministers of the altar.Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
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 →