Joel 1:9

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Cut off are the meal-offering and the drink-offering, from the house of Yahweh, - In grief are the priests, the attendants on Yahweh: -

Parallel Translations

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 .

Geneva Bible (1587)
The meate offring, & the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lords ministers mourne.

Christian Standard Bible®
Grain and drink offerings have been cut offfrom the house of the Lord;the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.

Hebrew Names Version
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The Kohanim, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

Darby Translation
The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

Easy-to-Read Version
Priests, servants of the Lord , cry because there will be no more grain and drink offerings in the Lord 's Temple.

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.

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

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.

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of Adonai . The cohanim are mourning, those who are serving Adonai .

JPS Old Testament (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.

King James Version (1611)
The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the Lord, the Priestes the Lords ministers mourne.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The meate offeryng and drinke offeryng is cut of from the house of the Lorde, the priestes [I meane] the Lordes ministers mourne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

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.

Lexham English Bible
The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.

Literal Translation
The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

New Century Version
There will be no more grain or drink offerings to offer in the Temple of the Lord . Because of this, the priests, the servants of the Lord , are sad.

New English Translation
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 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 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.

New Life Bible
The grain gifts and drink gifts have been cut off from the house of the Lord. The religious leaders who served the Lord are full of sorrow.

New Revised Standard
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord . The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord .

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

George Lamsa Translation
The 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.

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 .

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sacrifice and moist sacrifice perischide fro the hous of the Lord; and preestis, the mynystris of the Lord, moureneden.

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

World English Bible
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

Revised Standard Version
The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.

Update Bible Version
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Yahweh; the priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

Bible in Basic English
The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

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.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the meate & drynkofferynge shalbe taken awaye from the house of the LORDE: & the prestes ye LORDES ministers shal mourne.

New American Standard Bible (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.

Legacy Standard Bible
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut offFrom the house of Yahweh.The priests mourn,The ministers of Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth. ⁹ Cut off are the meal-offering and the drink-offering, from the house of Yahweh, - In grief are the priests, the attendants on Yahweh: - ¹⁰ Laid waste is the field, in grief is the soil, - for laid waste is the corn, abashed is the new wine, languisheth the oil. ¹¹ Turn pale, ye husbandmen, howl, ye vinedressers, over the wheat, and over the barley, - for perished is the harvest of the field. ¹² The vine, is abashed, and, the fig-tree, languisheth, - pomegranate, palm also, and apple - all the trees of the field, have withered, Yea abashed is gladness, away from the sons of men. ¹³ Gird yourselves and beat the breast - ye priests, howl, ye attendants of the altar, go in and wrap yourselves for the night in sackcloth, ye attendants on my God, - for, withholden from the house of your God, are the meal-offering and the drink- offering.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

meat: Joel 1:13, Joel 1:16, Joel 2:14, Hosea 9:4

the priests: Joel 2:17, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:16

the Lord's: Exodus 28:1, 2 Chronicles 13:10, Isaiah 61:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:40 - a drink Leviticus 2:1 - fine flour Leviticus 23:13 - the drink Numbers 6:15 - drink Numbers 15:9 - a meat Numbers 28:7 - to be poured Numbers 29:22 - drink offering 2 Samuel 1:21 - offerings Hosea 9:2 - floor Amos 1:2 - the habitations 2 Corinthians 6:4 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

Genesis 1:11
And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, - and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

Genesis 1:29
And God said - Lo! I have given to you - every herb yielding seed which is on the face of all the land, and every tree wherein is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, - to you, shall it be, for food;

Job 26:7
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord,.... The meat offering was made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense; and the drink offering was of wine; and, because of the want of corn and wine, these were not brought to the temple as usual; and which was matter of great grief to religious persons, and especially to the priests, as follows:

the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn; partly because they had no work to do, and could not answer to their character, the ministers of the Lord, in ministering about holy things, and bringing the sacrifices and offerings of the people to him; and partly because of their want of food, their livelihood greatly depending on the offerings brought, part of which belonged to them, and on which they and their families lived.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off - The meat offering and drink offering were part of every sacrifice. If the materials for these, the grain and wine, ceased, through locusts or drought or the wastings of war, the sacrifice must become mangled and imperfect. The priests were to mourn for the defects of the sacrifice; they lost also their own subsistence, since the altar was, to them, in place of all other inheritance. The meat and drink offerings were emblems of the materials of the holy eucharist, by which Malachi foretold that, when God had rejected the offering of the Jews, there should be a “pure offering” among the pagan Joel 1:11. When then holy communions become rare, the meat and drink offering are literally cut off from the house of the Lord, and those who are indeed priests, the ministers of the Lord, should mourn. Joel foretells that, however love should wax cold, there should ever be such. He forsees and foretells at once, the failure, and the grief of the priests. Nor is it an idle regret which he foretells, but a mourning unto their God. : “Both meat offering and drink offering hath perished from the house of God, not in actual substance but as to reverence, because, amid the prevailing iniquity there is scarcely found in the Church, who should duly celebrate, or receive the sacraments.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off — The crops and the vines being destroyed by the locusts, the total devastation in plants, trees, corn, &c., is referred to and described with a striking variety of expression in this and the following verses.