Joel 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Gird

Ezekiel 7:18

Ye ministers

2 Corinthians 11:23

Lie

2 Samuel 12:16

1 Kings 21:27

Jonah 3:5

For

Joel 1:9

Leviticus 2:8

Numbers 29:6

General references

Isaiah 37:2

Bible References

Gird

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.

For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.

And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Ye ministers

Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

But as for you, ye shall be called priests of Jehovah; it shall be said of you: Ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and into their glory shall ye enter.

Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

Lie

And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

For

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

And thou shalt bring the oblation that is made of these things to Jehovah; and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.

besides the monthly burnt-offering And its oblation, And the continual burnt-offering And its oblation, And their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

General references

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.