Joel Chapter 1 verse 9 Holy Bible
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
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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.
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The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
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The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
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The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
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Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. While all the inhabitants of the land are called to lament, and have abundant cause for lamentation, different classes of society are specified, and the grounds of their sorrow particularized. 1. The meat offering and drink offering accompanied the morning and evening sacrifice, and that sacrifice, with its accompaniments, being an expression of gratitude to God by a daily presentation to him of the firstfruits of his own mercies, was a visible memorial of Jehovah's covenant with his people; while the fact of its being cut off implied the cessation or suspension of that covenant and the people's exclusion from the covenanted mercies of God. 2. But the ministering priests in particular had cause of mourning, indeed a twofold cause: (1) their occupation was gone when there were no materials at hand wherewith to minister; their office could no longer last, as they wanted the appointed means for the discharge of its prescribed functions; . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) The meat offering and the drink offering--i.e., all the outward and visible signs of communion with God are cut off. The means are lost through this visitation. There is a total cessation of "the creatures of bread and wine." The immediate significance of this fact is naturally appreciated first by "the priests, the Lord's ministers."
