Joel 1:9
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:

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."

JPS Tanakh 1917
The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, Even the LORD'S ministers.

Literal Standard Version
Present and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, | The priests have mourned, servants of YHWH.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Call to Mourning
8Wail 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.

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.

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 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?'"


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.

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Joel 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.














(9) The meat offering and the drink offering--i.e., all the outward and visible signs of communion with God are cut off. The means are lost through this visitation. There is a total cessation of "the creatures of bread and wine." The immediate significance of this fact is naturally appreciated first by "the priests, the Lord's ministers."

Verse 9. - The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. While all the inhabitants of the land are called to lament, and have abundant cause for lamentation, different classes of society are specified, and the grounds of their sorrow particularized.

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; . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Grain and drink offerings
מִנְחָ֛ה (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


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