Joel 1:16

New Century Version

Our food is taken away while we watch. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Hasn’t the food been cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?

Hebrew Names Version
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

King James Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

English Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

New American Standard Bible
Has food not been cut off before our eyes, and Joy and rejoicing from the house of our God?

Amplified Bible
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? & ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

Legacy Standard Bible
Has not food been cut off before our eyes,Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

Berean Standard Bible
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes-joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Contemporary English Version
Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.

Complete Jewish Bible
The food is cut off before our very eyes, also joy and gladness from the house of our God.

Darby Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Easy-to-Read Version
Our food is gone. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.

George Lamsa Translation
And, behold, before our eyes the food is cut off from the house of our God, and gladness and joy have ceased.

Good News Translation
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.

Lexham English Bible
Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

Literal Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

American Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Bible in Basic English
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

King James Version (1611)
Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, [yea] mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

English Revised Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

World English Bible
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether foodis perischiden not bifore youre iyen; gladnesse and ful out ioie perischide fro the hous of youre God?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and gladness from the house of our God?

New English Translation
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

New King James Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

New Living Translation
Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

New Life Bible
Do you see how our food has been taken from us? Has not happiness and joy been cut off from the house of our God?

New Revised Standard
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Revised Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Shal not ye meates be taken awaye before oure eyes, the myrth also & ioye from the house of oure God?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Call for a day when everyone fasts! Tell everyone to stop work! Bring the elders and everyone who lives in the land to the Temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord . ¹⁵ What a terrible day it will be! The Lord 's day of judging is near, when punishment will come like a destroying attack from the Almighty. ¹⁶ Our food is taken away while we watch. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God. ¹⁷ Though we planted fig seeds, they lie dry and dead in the dirt. The barns are empty and falling down. The storerooms for grain have been broken down, because the grain has dried up. ¹⁸ The animals are groaning! The herds of cattle wander around confused, because they have no grass to eat; even the flocks of sheep suffer. ¹⁹ Lord , I am calling to you for help, because fire has burned up the open pastures, and flames have burned all the trees in the field. ²⁰ Wild animals also need your help. The streams of water have dried up, and fire has burned up the open pastures.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the meat: Joel 1:5-9, Joel 1:13, Amos 4:6, Amos 4:7

joy: Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 16:10-15, Psalms 43:4, Psalms 105:3, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 62:9

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:1 - a famine 1 Kings 17:12 - that we may eat it Jeremiah 3:3 - the showers Jeremiah 48:33 - joy Joel 1:9 - meat Joel 1:12 - joy Joel 2:14 - even Amos 1:2 - the habitations Habakkuk 3:17 - the fig tree

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it.

Genesis 1:8
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear." And it happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look up at the sky, you see the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the sky. But don't bow down and worship them, because the Lord your God has made these things for all people everywhere.

Job 31:26
I have not thought about worshiping the sun in its brightness nor admired the moon moving in glory

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted with joy?

Psalms 8:3
I look at your heavens, which you made with your fingers. I see the moon and stars, which you created.

Psalms 19:6
The sun rises at one end of the sky and follows its path to the other end. Nothing hides from its heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?.... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a matter out of all question, they could not but see it with their eyes; it was a plain case, and not to be denied, that every eatable thing, or that of which food was wont to be made, was cut off by the locusts, or the drought, or by the Assyrian or Chaldean army:

[yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God; the harvest being perished, there were no firstfruits brought to the temple, which used to be attended with great joy; and the corn and vines being wasted, no meat offerings made of fine flour, nor drink offerings of wine, were offered, which used to make glad God and man; nor any other sacrifices, on which the priests and their families lived, and were matter of joy to them; and these they ate of in the temple, or in courts adjoining to it. So Philo y the Jew says of the ancient Jews, that

"having prayed and offered sacrifices, and appeased the Deity, they washed their bodies and souls; the one in lavers, the other in the streams of the laws, and right instruction; and being cheerful, turned themselves to their food, not going home oftentimes, but remaining in the holy places where they sacrificed; and as mindful of the sacrifices, and reverencing the place, they kept a feast truly holy, not shining either in word or deed.''

y De Plantatione Noe, p. 237.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth were now ripe, the grain now calling for the reaper, and the grapes fully ripe and desiring to be pressed out, they were taken away, when set before their eyes for them to enjoy.” Yea, “joy and gladness from the house of our God.” The joy in the abundance of the harvest was expressed in one universal thanksgiving to God, by fathers of families, sons, daughters, menservants, maidservants, with the priest and Levite. All this was to be cut off together. The courts of God’s house were to be desolate and silent, or joy and gladness were to be turned into sorrow and wailing.

: “So it befell those who rejected and insulted Christ. “The Bread of life Which came down from heaven and gave life to the world John 6:48, John 6:51, the grain of wheat, which fell into the ground and died, and brought forth much fruit” John 12:24, that spiritual “wine” which knoweth how to “gladden the heart of man,” was already in a manner before their eyes. But when they ceased not to insult Him in unbelief, He, as it were, disappeared from their eyes, and they lost all spiritual sustenance. All share in all good is gone from them. “Joy and gladness” have also gone “from the House” which they had. For they are given up to desolation, and “abide without king or prince or sacrifice” Hosea 3:4. Again, the Lord said, “Man, shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which cometh forth out of the Mouth of God” Matthew 4:4. The word of God then is food. This hath been taken away from the Jews, for they understood not the writings of Moses, but “to this day the veil is upon their heart” 2 Corinthians 3:15. For they hate the oracles of Christ. All spiritual food is perished, not in itself but to “them.” To them, it is as though it were not. But the Lord Himself imparts to these who believe in Him a right to all exuberance of joy in the good tilings from above. For it is written, “The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusts away the desire of the wicked” Proverbs 10:3.