Joel 1:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joel 1:9 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 28:1“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.
- 2 Chronicles 13:10But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.
- Isaiah 61:6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
- Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Hosea 9:4They 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 1:13Put 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.
- Joel 1:16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- Joel 2:17Let 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?’”
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