Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. New Living Translation For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD. So the priests are in mourning. The ministers of the LORD are weeping. English Standard Version The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. New King James Version The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD. New American Standard Bible The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD. NASB 1995 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD. NASB 1977 The grain offering and the libation are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD. Legacy Standard Bible The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, The ministers of Yahweh. Amplified Bible The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn Who minister to the LORD. Christian Standard Bible Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn. Holman Christian Standard Bible Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn. American Standard Version The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn. Contemporary English Version Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow. English Revised Version The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. GOD'S WORD® Translation Grain offerings and wine offerings are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. The priests, the LORD's servants, mourn. Good News Translation There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD. International Standard Version Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning." Majority Standard Bible 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. NET Bible No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the LORD anymore. So the priests, those who serve the LORD, are in mourning. New Heart English Bible The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. Webster's Bible Translation The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. World English Bible The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionPresent and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, "" The priests have mourned, servants of YHWH. Young's Literal Translation Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah. Smith's Literal Translation The gift was cut off and the libation from the house of Jehovah; mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned: Catholic Public Domain Version Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned. New American Bible Grain offering and libation are cut off from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD. New Revised Standard Version The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the kings mourn, and the priests who minister to the LORD mourn. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Make a meal offering and a drink offering from the house of LORD JEHOVAH. Kings sit in mourning and the Priests who minister to LORD JEHOVAH OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, Even the LORD'S ministers. Brenton Septuagint Translation The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Call to Mourning8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. 9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. 10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.… Cross References 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. Malachi 1:10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. Isaiah 24:7-11 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. ... Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest. Amos 5:21-22 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. Ezekiel 45:16-17 All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. / And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel. Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.” Isaiah 1:11-15 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ... Psalm 51:16-17 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Hebrews 10:5-10 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ... Mark 12:33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 1 Corinthians 11:20-22 Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat. / For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk. / Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not! Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Treasury of Scripture The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. meat. Joel 1:13,16 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God… Joel 2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. the priests. Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Lamentations 1:4,16 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness… the Lord's. Exodus 28:1 And take thou 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. 2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. Jump to Previous Cereal Cut Drink Drink-Offering Grain House Jehovah's LORD's Meal Meal-Offering Meat Meat-Offering Minister Ministers Ministrants Mourn Mourned Mourning Oblation Offering Offerings Present Priests Servants SorrowingJump to Next Cereal Cut Drink Drink-Offering Grain House Jehovah's LORD's Meal Meal-Offering Meat Meat-Offering Minister Ministers Ministrants Mourn Mourned Mourning Oblation Offering Offerings Present Priests Servants SorrowingJoel 1 1. Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,8. and to mourn. 14. He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments. The grain offering and the drink offering In the context of ancient Israel, the grain offering and the drink offering were integral parts of the sacrificial system established by God. The Hebrew word for "grain offering" is "מִנְחָה" (minchah), which signifies a gift or tribute, often in the form of flour or grain, symbolizing the fruits of human labor offered to God. The "drink offering," or "נֶסֶךְ" (nesekh), typically consisted of wine poured out in worship, representing the joy and abundance of God's provision. These offerings were expressions of gratitude and devotion, acknowledging God's sovereignty and provision. Their absence, as noted in this verse, underscores a disruption in the relationship between the people and God, highlighting a spiritual and communal crisis. are cut off from the house of the LORD The priests are in mourning those who minister before the LORD 1. The meat offering and drink offering accompanied the morning and evening sacrifice, and that sacrifice, with its accompaniments, being an expression of gratitude to God by a daily presentation to him of the firstfruits of his own mercies, was a visible memorial of Jehovah's covenant with his people; while the fact of its being cut off implied the cessation or suspension of that covenant and the people's exclusion from the covenanted mercies of God. 2. But the ministering priests in particular had cause of mourning, indeed a twofold cause: (1) their occupation was gone when there were no materials at hand wherewith to minister; their office could no longer last, as they wanted the appointed means for the discharge of its prescribed functions; . . . Hebrew Grain and drink offeringsמִנְחָ֛ה (min·ḥāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering have been cut off הָכְרַ֥ת (hā·ḵə·raṯ) Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant from the house מִבֵּ֣ית (mib·bêṯ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel the priests הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3548: Priest are in mourning, אָֽבְלוּ֙ (’ā·ḇə·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 56: To bewail those who minister מְשָׁרְתֵ֖י (mə·šā·rə·ṯê) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct Strong's 8334: To attend as a, menial, worshipper, to contribute to before the LORD. יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel Links Joel 1:9 NIVJoel 1:9 NLT Joel 1:9 ESV Joel 1:9 NASB Joel 1:9 KJV Joel 1:9 BibleApps.com Joel 1:9 Biblia Paralela Joel 1:9 Chinese Bible Joel 1:9 French Bible Joel 1:9 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Joel 1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering (Jl Joe.) |
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