Joel 1:9

Joel chapter 1 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

v.8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

v.9This passage

v.10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Exodus 28:1
And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
2 Chronicles 13:10
But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering unto Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
Joel 2:14
Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Jehovah your God?
Joel 1:16
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?