Joel 1:9

Translations

Modern

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Traditional

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

Literal

The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH; the priests mourn—those ministering to YHWH.

Latin

Periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini; luxerunt sacerdotes, ministri Domini.

Original

Hebrew

English

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Notes

Joel 1:9

The locust plague threatened the people of Judah with starvation. It stopped the daily animal sacrifices and grain and wine offerings at the temple in Jerusalem (compare Exodus 29:38–41; Numbers 28:2–8).

Joel 1:1–2:17

The prophet Joel describes a severe locust plague that struck Judah and Jerusalem.

Theme notes and profiles

Famine The Day of the Lord

Events

Prophecies of Joel

Related verses

Joel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Joel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
Hosea 9:4
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
Joel 1:16
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
2 Chronicles 13:10
But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.
Exodus 28:1
“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

Glossary

Book of Joel Fig, Fig Tree Plagues upon Egypt Servant

Topics

Drink offering: Omission of, Caused by Bad Vintage Meat-Offerings: The Jews: Often Prevented from offering, by Judgments Nation: Chastised

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