Joel 1:16

Green's Literal Translation

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Our food is gone. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.

New American Standard Bible
Has food not been cut off before our eyes, and Joy and rejoicing from the house of our God?

New Century Version
Our food is taken away while we watch. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.

New English Translation
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

Update Bible Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yes], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Webster's Bible Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Amplified Bible
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

English Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

World English Bible
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether foodis perischiden not bifore youre iyen; gladnesse and ful out ioie perischide fro the hous of youre God?

English Revised Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Berean Standard Bible
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes-joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Contemporary English Version
Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.

American Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Bible in Basic English
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

Complete Jewish Bible
The food is cut off before our very eyes, also joy and gladness from the house of our God.

Darby Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

King James Version (1611)
Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?

New Living Translation
Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

New Life Bible
Do you see how our food has been taken from us? Has not happiness and joy been cut off from the house of our God?

New Revised Standard
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? & ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

George Lamsa Translation
And, behold, before our eyes the food is cut off from the house of our God, and gladness and joy have ceased.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Revised Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, [yea] mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

Good News Translation
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.

Christian Standard Bible®
Hasn’t the food been cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?

Hebrew Names Version
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

King James Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Lexham English Bible
Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Shal not ye meates be taken awaye before oure eyes, the myrth also & ioye from the house of oure God?

New King James Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

Legacy Standard Bible
Has not food been cut off before our eyes,Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Set apart a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, all those living in the land, into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah. ¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. ¹⁶ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The seed shrivels under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up. ¹⁸ How the beasts groan! The herds of livestock are vexed, for there is no pasture for them. Even the flocks of sheep are perishing. ¹⁹ O Jehovah, to You I will cry, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and has consumed all the trees of the field. ²⁰ The beasts of the field also long for You, for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the meat: Joel 1:5-9, Joel 1:13, Amos 4:6, Amos 4:7

joy: Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 16:10-15, Psalms 43:4, Psalms 105:3, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 62:9

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:1 - a famine 1 Kings 17:12 - that we may eat it Jeremiah 3:3 - the showers Jeremiah 48:33 - joy Joel 1:9 - meat Joel 1:12 - joy Joel 2:14 - even Amos 1:2 - the habitations Habakkuk 3:17 - the fig tree

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
And God made the expanse, and He separated between the waters which were under the expanse and the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth bore tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed according to its kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
and that you not lift up your eyes towards the heavens and shall see the sun, and the heavens, and you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them; which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.

Job 31:26
if I looked to the light when it shone, or the splendid moon marching,

Job 38:7
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3
When I look upon Your heavens, the work of Your fingers: the moon and the stars which You have fixed;

Psalms 19:6
his going forth from the end of the heavens, and his orbit to their ends; and nothing is hidden from his heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?.... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a matter out of all question, they could not but see it with their eyes; it was a plain case, and not to be denied, that every eatable thing, or that of which food was wont to be made, was cut off by the locusts, or the drought, or by the Assyrian or Chaldean army:

[yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God; the harvest being perished, there were no firstfruits brought to the temple, which used to be attended with great joy; and the corn and vines being wasted, no meat offerings made of fine flour, nor drink offerings of wine, were offered, which used to make glad God and man; nor any other sacrifices, on which the priests and their families lived, and were matter of joy to them; and these they ate of in the temple, or in courts adjoining to it. So Philo y the Jew says of the ancient Jews, that

"having prayed and offered sacrifices, and appeased the Deity, they washed their bodies and souls; the one in lavers, the other in the streams of the laws, and right instruction; and being cheerful, turned themselves to their food, not going home oftentimes, but remaining in the holy places where they sacrificed; and as mindful of the sacrifices, and reverencing the place, they kept a feast truly holy, not shining either in word or deed.''

y De Plantatione Noe, p. 237.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth were now ripe, the grain now calling for the reaper, and the grapes fully ripe and desiring to be pressed out, they were taken away, when set before their eyes for them to enjoy.” Yea, “joy and gladness from the house of our God.” The joy in the abundance of the harvest was expressed in one universal thanksgiving to God, by fathers of families, sons, daughters, menservants, maidservants, with the priest and Levite. All this was to be cut off together. The courts of God’s house were to be desolate and silent, or joy and gladness were to be turned into sorrow and wailing.

: “So it befell those who rejected and insulted Christ. “The Bread of life Which came down from heaven and gave life to the world John 6:48, John 6:51, the grain of wheat, which fell into the ground and died, and brought forth much fruit” John 12:24, that spiritual “wine” which knoweth how to “gladden the heart of man,” was already in a manner before their eyes. But when they ceased not to insult Him in unbelief, He, as it were, disappeared from their eyes, and they lost all spiritual sustenance. All share in all good is gone from them. “Joy and gladness” have also gone “from the House” which they had. For they are given up to desolation, and “abide without king or prince or sacrifice” Hosea 3:4. Again, the Lord said, “Man, shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which cometh forth out of the Mouth of God” Matthew 4:4. The word of God then is food. This hath been taken away from the Jews, for they understood not the writings of Moses, but “to this day the veil is upon their heart” 2 Corinthians 3:15. For they hate the oracles of Christ. All spiritual food is perished, not in itself but to “them.” To them, it is as though it were not. But the Lord Himself imparts to these who believe in Him a right to all exuberance of joy in the good tilings from above. For it is written, “The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusts away the desire of the wicked” Proverbs 10:3.