Parallel Verses
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
From the house of the Lord.
The
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.
Holman Bible
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.
International Standard Version
Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning."
A Conservative Version
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of LORD. The priests, LORD's ministers, mourn.
American Standard Version
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Amplified
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.
Darby Translation
The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Julia Smith Translation
The gift was cut off and the libation from the house of Jehovah; mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah.
King James 2000
The grain offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
The food offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of the LORD: and the priests, the LORD's ministers, shall mourn.
NET Bible
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 Heart English Bible
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
The 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: -
Webster
The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
World English Bible
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.
Themes
Drink offering » Omission of, caused by bad vintage
Meat offerings » The jews » Often prevented from offering, by judgments
Interlinear
Karath
Bayith
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament Over The Land
8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years. 9 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. 10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
Phrases
Cross References
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
Joel 1:13
Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
Isaiah 61:6
But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
Exodus 28:1
Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.
2 Chronicles 13:10
But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Joel 1:16
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?