Joel 1:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
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“Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joel 1:16 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 12:6To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Deuteronomy 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
- Psalms 105:3Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
- Isaiah 3:7On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
- Isaiah 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 1:13Put 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.
- Amos 4:6“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
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