Joel 1 · Verse 16

Joel 1:16

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:16, King James Version

Joel 1:16 in other translations

BSBHas not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
WEBIsn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
ASVIs not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
YLTIs not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?
DARBYIs not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
BBEIs not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
WebsterIs not the food cut off before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?

What does Joel 1:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. Compare Joe 1:9, and latter part of Joe 1:12. joy--which prevailed at the annual feasts, as also in the ordinary sacrificial offerings, of which the offerers ate before the Lord with gladness and thanksgivings (De 12:6, 7, 12; 16:11, 14, 15).

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 1:14-20

The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purpose; a day in which people must be kept from their common employments, that they may more closely attend God's services; and there is to be abstaining from meat and drink. Every one had added to the national guilt, all shared…

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Joel 1:16 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.

הֲל֛וֹאha.Lo'¿ notH3808
נֶ֥גֶדNe.gedbeforeH5048
עֵינֵ֖ינוּ'ei.Nei.nueyes ourH5869
אֹ֣כֶל'O.khelfoodH400
נִכְרָ֑תnikh.Rathas it been cut offH3772
מִבֵּ֥יתmi.Beitfrom [the] house ofH1004
אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ'e.lo.Hei.nuGod ourH430
שִׂמְחָ֥הsim.ChahjoyH8057
וָגִֽיל\׃va.Giland rejoicingH1524

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

Cross references for Joel 1:16

  • Psalms 43:4

    Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

  • Psalms 105:3

    Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

  • Deuteronomy 12:6-7

    And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

  • Isaiah 3:7

    In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 62:8-9

    The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

  • Amos 4:6-7

    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

  • Joel 1:5-9

    Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. …

  • Deuteronomy 16:10-15

    And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: …

  • Deuteronomy 12:11-12

    Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord: And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the meat.
5-9,13; Am 4:6,7
joy.
De 12:6,7,11,12; 16:10-15; Ps 43:4; 105:3; Isa 62:8,9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Joel 1:15

    Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • Joel 1:16

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

  • Joel 1:17

    The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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Joel 1:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿No es quitado el mantenimiento de delante de nuestros ojos, la alegría y el placer de la casa de nuestro Dios?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La nourriture n’est-elle pas retranchée de devant nos yeux, et, de la maison de notre Dieu, la joie et l’allégresse?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ist nicht die Speise vor unseren Augen weggenommen, Freude und Frohlocken von dem Hause unseres Gottes?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt de domo Dei nostri, lætitia et exsultatio?