Joel 1:9

Good News Translation

There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the Lord .

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Grain and drink offerings have been cut offfrom the house of the Lord;the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.

Hebrew Names Version
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The Kohanim, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

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.

English Standard Version
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord . The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord .

New American Standard Bible
The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.

New Century Version
There will be no more grain or drink offerings to offer in the Temple of the Lord . Because of this, the priests, the servants of the Lord , are sad.

Amplified Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The meate offring, & the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lords ministers mourne.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut offFrom the house of Yahweh.The priests mourn,The ministers of Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the Lord 's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow.

Complete Jewish Bible
Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of Adonai . The cohanim are mourning, those who are serving Adonai .

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Priests, servants of the Lord , cry because there will be no more grain and drink offerings in the Lord 's Temple.

George Lamsa Translation
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the kings mourn, and the priests who minister to the LORD mourn.

Lexham English Bible
The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.

Literal Translation
The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah'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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests mourn, even the LORD'S ministers.

King James Version (1611)
The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the Lord, the Priestes the Lords ministers mourne.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The meate offeryng and drinke offeryng is cut of from the house of the Lorde, the priestes [I meane] the Lordes ministers mourne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

English Revised Version
The meal 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sacrifice and moist sacrifice perischide fro the hous of the Lord; and preestis, the mynystris of the Lord, moureneden.

Update Bible Version
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Yahweh; the priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

Webster's Bible Translation
The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

New English Translation
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 King James Version
The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.

New Living Translation
For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the Lord . So the priests are in mourning. The ministers of the Lord are weeping.

New Life Bible
The grain gifts and drink gifts have been cut off from the house of the Lord. The religious leaders who served the Lord are full of sorrow.

New Revised Standard
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord . The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham 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: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord’s ministers, have mourned:

Revised Standard Version
The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.

Young's Literal Translation
Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the meate & drynkofferynge shalbe taken awaye from the house of the LORDE: & the prestes ye LORDES ministers shal mourne.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry. ⁹ There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the Lord . ¹⁰ The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered. ¹¹ Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed. ¹² The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone. ¹³ Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

meat: Joel 1:13, Joel 1:16, Joel 2:14, Hosea 9:4

the priests: Joel 2:17, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:16

the Lord's: Exodus 28:1, 2 Chronicles 13:10, Isaiah 61:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:40 - a drink Leviticus 2:1 - fine flour Leviticus 23:13 - the drink Numbers 6:15 - drink Numbers 15:9 - a meat Numbers 28:7 - to be poured Numbers 29:22 - drink offering 2 Samuel 1:21 - offerings Hosea 9:2 - floor Amos 1:2 - the habitations 2 Corinthians 6:4 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, when God created the universe,

Genesis 1:2
the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.

Genesis 1:5
and he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.

Genesis 1:6
Then God commanded, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"—and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.

Genesis 1:8
He named the dome "Sky." Evening passed and morning came—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"—and it was done.

Genesis 1:11
Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"—and it was done.

Genesis 1:28
blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

Genesis 1:29
I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;

Job 26:7
God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord,.... The meat offering was made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense; and the drink offering was of wine; and, because of the want of corn and wine, these were not brought to the temple as usual; and which was matter of great grief to religious persons, and especially to the priests, as follows:

the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn; partly because they had no work to do, and could not answer to their character, the ministers of the Lord, in ministering about holy things, and bringing the sacrifices and offerings of the people to him; and partly because of their want of food, their livelihood greatly depending on the offerings brought, part of which belonged to them, and on which they and their families lived.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off - The meat offering and drink offering were part of every sacrifice. If the materials for these, the grain and wine, ceased, through locusts or drought or the wastings of war, the sacrifice must become mangled and imperfect. The priests were to mourn for the defects of the sacrifice; they lost also their own subsistence, since the altar was, to them, in place of all other inheritance. The meat and drink offerings were emblems of the materials of the holy eucharist, by which Malachi foretold that, when God had rejected the offering of the Jews, there should be a “pure offering” among the pagan Joel 1:11. When then holy communions become rare, the meat and drink offering are literally cut off from the house of the Lord, and those who are indeed priests, the ministers of the Lord, should mourn. Joel foretells that, however love should wax cold, there should ever be such. He forsees and foretells at once, the failure, and the grief of the priests. Nor is it an idle regret which he foretells, but a mourning unto their God. : “Both meat offering and drink offering hath perished from the house of God, not in actual substance but as to reverence, because, amid the prevailing iniquity there is scarcely found in the Church, who should duly celebrate, or receive the sacraments.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off — The crops and the vines being destroyed by the locusts, the total devastation in plants, trees, corn, &c., is referred to and described with a striking variety of expression in this and the following verses.