Joel 1 · Verse 13

Joel 1:13

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.
Joel 1:13, King James Version

Joel 1:13 in other translations

BSBPut on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
WEBPut on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
ASVGird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
YLTGird, and lament, ye priests, Howl, ye ministrants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, ministrants of my God, For withheld from the house of your God hath been present and libation.
DARBYGird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
BBEPut 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.
WebsterGird 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 withheld from the house of your God.

What does Joel 1:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Gird yourselves--namely, with sackcloth; as in Is 32:11, the ellipsis is supplied (compare Jr 4:8). lament, ye priests--as it is your duty to set the example to others; also as the guilt was greater, and a greater scandal was occasioned, by your sin to the cause of God. come--the Septuagint, "enter" the house of God (compare Joe 1:14). lie all night in sackcloth--so Ahab (1Ki 21:27). ministers of my God--(1Co 9:13). Joel claims authority for his doctrine; it is in God's name and by His mission I speak to you.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 1:8-13

All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed in the enjoyment, lose their joy; whereas spiritual joy then flourishes more than ever. See what perishing, uncertain things our creature-comforts are. See how we need to live in continual dependence upon God and his…

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Joel 1:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

חִגְר֨וּchig.Rugird yourselvesH2296
וְסִפְד֜וּve.sif.Duand lamentH5594
הַכֹּהֲנִ֗יםha.ko.ha.NimO priestsH3548
הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙hei.Li.luwailH3213
מְשָׁרְתֵ֣יme.sha.re.TeiO servants ofH8334
מִזְבֵּ֔חַmiz.Be.ach[the] altarH4196
בֹּ֚אוּBo.'ucomeH935
לִ֣ינוּLi.nuspend [the] nightH3885
בַשַּׂקִּ֔יםva.sa.Kimin <the> sackcloth<s>H8242
מְשָׁרְתֵ֖יme.sha.re.TeiO servants ofH8334
אֱלֹהָ֑י'e.lo.HaiGod myH430
כִּ֥יkiforH3588
נִמְנַ֛עnim.Na'it has been withheldH4513
מִבֵּ֥יתmi.Beitfrom [the] house ofH1004
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430
מִנְחָ֥הmin.Chahgrain offeringH4503
וָנָֽסֶךְ\׃va.Na.sekhand drink offeringH5262

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Joel 1:13

  • Jeremiah 4:8

    For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Joel 1:8-9

    Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

  • Jeremiah 9:10

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Joel 2:17

    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 is their God?

  • 1 Kings 21:27

    And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

  • Ezekiel 7:18

    They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Jonah 3:5-8

    So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

  • Isaiah 61:6

    But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:13

    Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

  • 2 Samuel 12:16

    David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

  • 1 Corinthians 4:1

    Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:6

    Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gird.
8,9; 2:17; Jer 4:8; 9:10; Eze 7:18
ye ministers.
1Co 9:13; Heb 7:13,14
lie.
2Sa 12:16; 1Ki 21:27; Jon 3:5-8
ye ministers.
Isa 61:6; 1Co 4:1; 2Co 3:6; 6:4; 11:23
for.
9; Le 2:8-10; Nu 29:6

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Context

  • Joel 1:12

    The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

  • Joel 1:13

    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.

  • Joel 1:14

    Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

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Joel 1:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ceñíos y lamentad, sacerdotes; aullad, ministros del altar; venid, dormid en sacos, ministros de mi Dios: porque quitado es de la casa de vuestro Dios el presente y la libación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ceignez-vous et lamentez-vous, sacrificateurs; hurlez, vous qui servez l’autel; venez, passez la nuit sous le sac, vous qui servez mon Dieu! car l’offrande et la libation sont ôtées à la maison de votre Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Umgürtet euch und wehklaget, ihr Priester; heulet, ihr Diener des Altars! kommet, übernachtet in Sacktuch, ihr Diener meines Gottes! denn Speisopfer und Trankopfer sind dem Hause eures Gottes entzogen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Accingite vos, et plangite, sacerdotes: ululate, ministri altaris; ingredimini, cubate in sacco, ministri Dei mei, quoniam interiit de domo Dei vestri sacrificium et libatio.