the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
Joel 1:16
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Hasn’t the food been cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Has food not been cut off before our eyes, and Joy and rejoicing from the house of our God?
Our food is taken away while we watch. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? & ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?
Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?
Has not food been cut off before our eyes,Gladness and joy from the house of our God?
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes-joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.
The food is cut off before our very eyes, also joy and gladness from the house of our God.
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Our food is gone. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.
And, behold, before our eyes the food is cut off from the house of our God, and gladness and joy have ceased.
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?
Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, [yea] mirth and ioy from the house of our God?
Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Whether foodis perischiden not bifore youre iyen; gladnesse and ful out ioie perischide fro the hous of youre God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yes], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.
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?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation.
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?
Shal not ye meates be taken awaye before oure eyes, the myrth also & ioye from the house of oure God?
Contextual Overview
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
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
That's how God's Word vaults across the skies from sunrise to sunset, Melting ice, scorching deserts, warming hearts to faith.
"Following those hard times, Sun will fade out, moon cloud over, Stars fall out of the sky, cosmic powers tremble.
From noon to three, the whole earth was dark. Around midafternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"
Everything New I saw Heaven and earth new-created. Gone the first Heaven, gone the first earth, gone the sea. I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband. I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: "Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone." The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down—each word dependable and accurate." Then he said, "It's happened. I'm A to Z. I'm the Beginning, I'm the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. Conquerors inherit all this. I'll be God to them, they'll be sons and daughters to me. But for the rest—the feckless and faithless, degenerates and murderers, sex peddlers and sorcerers, idolaters and all liars—for them it's Lake Fire and Brimstone. Second death!" One of the Seven Angels who had carried the bowls filled with the seven final disasters spoke to me: "Come here. I'll show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb." He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous, high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God, resplendent in the bright glory of God. The City shimmered like a precious gem, light-filled, pulsing light. She had a wall majestic and high with twelve gates. At each gate stood an Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the Twelve Tribes of the sons of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates on the west. The wall was set on twelve foundations, the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them. The Angel speaking with me had a gold measuring stick to measure the City, its gates, and its wall. The City was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the City with the measuring stick: twelve thousand stadia, its length, width, and height all equal. Using the standard measure, the Angel measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits. The wall was jasper, the color of Glory, and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. The foundations of the City walls were garnished with every precious gem imaginable: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God—the Sovereign-Strong—and the Lamb are the Temple. The City doesn't need sun or moon for light. God's Glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp! The nations will walk in its light and earth's kings bring in their splendor. Its gates will never be shut by day, and there won't be any night. They'll bring the glory and honor of the nations into the City. Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City, and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life will get in.
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. âWhen 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.â Yea, âjoy and gladness from the house of our God.â 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 Godâs house were to be desolate and silent, or joy and gladness were to be turned into sorrow and wailing.
: âSo it befell those who rejected and insulted Christ. âThe 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 fruitâ John 12:24, that spiritual âwineâ which knoweth how to âgladden the heart of man,â 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. âJoy and gladnessâ have also gone âfrom the Houseâ which they had. For they are given up to desolation, and âabide without king or prince or sacrificeâ Hosea 3:4. Again, the Lord said, âMan, shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which cometh forth out of the Mouth of Godâ 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 âto this day the veil is upon their heartâ 2 Corinthians 3:15. For they hate the oracles of Christ. All spiritual food is perished, not in itself but to âthem.â 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, âThe Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusts away the desire of the wickedâ Proverbs 10:3.
