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The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/joel/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/joel/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/joel/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/joel/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/joel/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/joel/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/joel/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The grain offering and the libation are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/joel/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, The ministers of Yahweh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/joel/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/joel/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/joel/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joel/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/joel/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joel/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/joel/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Grain offerings and wine offerings are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. The priests, the LORD's servants, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/joel/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/joel/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/joel/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/joel/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/joel/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joel/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joel/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/joel/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Present and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, "" The priests have mourned, servants of YHWH.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joel/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/joel/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The gift was cut off and the libation from the house of Jehovah; mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joel/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/joel/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/joel/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Grain offering and libation are cut off from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/joel/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/joel/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/joel/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Make a meal offering and a drink offering from the house of LORD JEHOVAH. Kings sit in mourning and the Priests who minister to LORD JEHOVAH<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/joel/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, Even the LORD'S ministers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/joel/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/joel/1-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oEU9eLLsIkI?start=80" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/joel/1.htm">A Call to Mourning</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8</span>Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4503.htm" title="4503: min·ḥāh (N-fs) -- From an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. Bestow; a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering.">Grain and drink offerings</a> <a href="/hebrew/5262.htm" title="5262: wā·ne·seḵ (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- A libation, a cast idol. Or necek; from nacak; a libation; also a cast idol."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3772.htm" title="3772: hā·ḵə·raṯ (V-Hofal-Perf-3ms) -- To cut off, cut down. A primitive root; to cut; by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant.">have been cut off</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: mib·bêṯ (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">from the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: hak·kō·hă·nîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">the priests</a> <a href="/hebrew/56.htm" title="56: ’ā·ḇə·lū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To mourn. A primitive root; to bewail.">are in mourning,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8334.htm" title="8334: mə·šā·rə·ṯê (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mpc) -- To minister, serve. A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to.">those who minister</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">before the LORD.</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Hosea 9:4</a></span><br />They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-10.htm">Malachi 1:10</a></span><br />“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-11</a></span><br />The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-6.htm">Lamentations 2:6</a></span><br />He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-22</a></span><br />“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/45-16.htm">Ezekiel 45:16-17</a></span><br />All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. / And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-12.htm">Jeremiah 14:12</a></span><br />Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-15</a></span><br />“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/51-16.htm">Psalm 51:16-17</a></span><br />For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-5.htm">Hebrews 10:5-10</a></span><br />Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33</a></span><br />and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-20.htm">1 Corinthians 11:20-22</a></span><br />Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat. / For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk. / Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a></span><br />But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.</p><p class="hdg">meat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Joel 1:13,16</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/2-14.htm">Joel 2:14</a></b></br> Who knoweth <i>if</i> he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; <i>even</i> a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Hosea 9:4</a></b></br> They shall not offer wine <i>offerings</i> to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices <i>shall be</i> unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">the priests.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/2-17.htm">Joel 2:17</a></b></br> Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where <i>is</i> their God?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Lamentations 1:4,16</a></b></br> The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she <i>is</i> in bitterness… </p><p class="hdg">the Lord's.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/28-1.htm">Exodus 28:1</a></b></br> And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, <i>even</i> Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/13-10.htm">2 Chronicles 13:10</a></b></br> But as for us, the LORD <i>is</i> our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, <i>are</i> the sons of Aaron, and the Levites <i>wait</i> upon <i>their</i> business:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/61-6.htm">Isaiah 61:6</a></b></br> But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: <i>men</i> shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/46-20.htm">Cereal</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/hosea/4-18.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-11.htm">Drink-Offering</a> <a href="/hosea/14-7.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">House</a> <a href="/hosea/9-5.htm">Jehovah's</a> <a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">LORD's</a> <a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-20.htm">Meal-Offering</a> <a href="/hosea/11-4.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-20.htm">Meat-Offering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-24.htm">Minister</a> <a href="/daniel/4-36.htm">Ministers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-24.htm">Ministrants</a> <a href="/joel/1-8.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Mourned</a> <a href="/daniel/10-2.htm">Mourning</a> <a href="/daniel/9-27.htm">Oblation</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/hosea/12-11.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Present</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/daniel/9-17.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-32.htm">Sorrowing</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/2-14.htm">Cereal</a> <a href="/joel/1-16.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Drink-Offering</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">House</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-21.htm">Jehovah's</a> <a href="/joel/2-17.htm">LORD's</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Meal-Offering</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Meat-Offering</a> <a href="/matthew/4-11.htm">Minister</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Ministers</a> <a href="/matthew/22-13.htm">Ministrants</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Mourned</a> <a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Mourning</a> <a href="/joel/2-14.htm">Oblation</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/joel/2-14.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/amos/5-25.htm">Present</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/joel/2-29.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/matthew/19-22.htm">Sorrowing</a><div class="vheading2">Joel 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-1.htm">Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm">and to mourn.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm">He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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These offerings were integral to the sacrificial system established in the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 2, <a href="/numbers/15.htm">Numbers 15:1-10</a>). The grain offering, often made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense, symbolized dedication and thanksgiving to God. The drink offering, typically wine, was poured out as a libation, representing the outpouring of one's life in service to God. The cutting off of these offerings indicates a severe crisis, likely due to a locust plague or drought, which has devastated the agricultural produce of the land. This disruption serves as a divine judgment and a call to repentance, echoing the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-42</a>.<p><b>the priests are in mourning,</b><br>The priests, responsible for conducting temple rituals and maintaining the spiritual welfare of the nation, are depicted in mourning. Mourning in ancient Israel involved wearing sackcloth, fasting, and lamentation (<a href="/joel/1-13.htm">Joel 1:13</a>). The priests' grief reflects the gravity of the situation, as they are unable to perform their duties and offer sacrifices to God. This mourning is not only for the loss of agricultural produce but also for the spiritual desolation it represents. The priests' lamentation underscores the nation's need for repentance and return to God, as seen in other prophetic calls to repentance (<a href="/jeremiah/4-8.htm">Jeremiah 4:8</a>, <a href="/ezekiel/7-18.htm">Ezekiel 7:18</a>).<p><b>those who minister before the LORD.</b><br>This phrase refers to the priests and Levites who served in the temple, performing sacrifices and maintaining the sacred space. Their role was crucial in mediating between God and the people, ensuring that the covenant relationship was upheld. The disruption of their ministry due to the lack of offerings highlights the breakdown of this relationship. The phrase "before the LORD" emphasizes the presence of God in the temple, where these ministers served. This situation foreshadows the ultimate High Priest, Jesus Christ, who would restore the broken relationship between God and humanity through His perfect sacrifice (<a href="/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23-28</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/joel.htm">Joel</a></b><br>The prophet who authored the book, delivering God's message to the people of Judah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/h/house_of_the_lord.htm">House of the LORD</a></b><br>Refers to the temple in Jerusalem, the central place of worship for the Israelites.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/p/priests.htm">Priests</a></b><br>The religious leaders responsible for performing sacrifices and offerings in the temple.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/grain_and_drink_offerings.htm">Grain and Drink Offerings</a></b><br>Sacrificial offerings prescribed in the Law of Moses, symbolizing dedication and thanksgiving to God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/mourning.htm">Mourning</a></b><br>The emotional response of the priests due to the cessation of offerings, indicating a spiritual and communal crisis.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_worship.htm">The Importance of Worship</a></b><br>The cessation of offerings signifies a disruption in the relationship between God and His people. Worship is central to maintaining a vibrant relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_desolation.htm">Spiritual Desolation</a></b><br>The mourning of the priests reflects the spiritual desolation that occurs when regular worship and offerings are neglected. It serves as a call to examine our own spiritual practices.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/role_of_religious_leaders.htm">Role of Religious Leaders</a></b><br>The priests' mourning highlights the responsibility of religious leaders to guide and intercede for the people, especially in times of spiritual crisis.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_offerings.htm">Symbolism of Offerings</a></b><br>Grain and drink offerings symbolize dedication and thanksgiving. Their absence points to a need for genuine repentance and renewal of commitment to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The disruption of worship practices is a call to repentance and a return to God, emphasizing the need for heartfelt devotion over mere ritual.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_joel_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Joel 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_book_of_joel's_message.htm">What is the main message of the Book of Joel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_were_nadab_and_abihu_in_the_bible.htm">Who were Nadab and Abihu in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_public_prayer_acceptable.htm">Is public prayer acceptable?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_is_the_author_of_the_book_of_joel.htm">Who is the author of the Book of Joel?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joel/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">The meat offering and the drink offering</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> 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."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joel/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn</span>. 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. <p><span class="Text_Heading">1.</span> 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. <p><span class="Text_Heading">2.</span> But the ministering priests in particular had cause of mourning, indeed a twofold cause: <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> 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; . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/joel/1-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Grain and drink offerings</span><br /><span class="heb">מִנְחָ֛ה</span> <span class="translit">(min·ḥāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4503.htm">Strong's 4503: </a> </span><span class="str2">A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have been cut off</span><br /><span class="heb">הָכְרַ֥ת</span> <span class="translit">(hā·ḵə·raṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the house</span><br /><span class="heb">מִבֵּ֣ית</span> <span class="translit">(mib·bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the LORD;</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the priests</span><br /><span class="heb">הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(hak·kō·hă·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> </span><span class="str2">Priest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are in mourning,</span><br /><span class="heb">אָֽבְלוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇə·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_56.htm">Strong's 56: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bewail</span><br /><br /><span class="word">those who minister</span><br /><span class="heb">מְשָׁרְתֵ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(mə·šā·rə·ṯê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8334.htm">Strong's 8334: </a> </span><span class="str2">To attend as a, menial, worshipper, to contribute to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">before the LORD.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/joel/1-9.htm">OT Prophets: Joel 1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering (Jl Joe.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joel 1:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joel 1:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joel 1:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joel 1:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>