Joel 1:16

Old Testament Minor Prophet ASV (1901)

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

Joel 1:16 — American Standard Version

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Context — Joel 1

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13Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.

15Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

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