Joel 1 · Verse 9

Joel 1:9

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:9, King James Version

Joel 1:9 in other translations

BSBGrain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
WEBThe meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
ASVThe meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
YLTCut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.
DARBYThe oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
BBEThe meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.
WebsterThe meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

What does Joel 1:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. The greatest sorrow to the mind of a religious Jew, and what ought to impress the whole nation with a sense of God's displeasure, is the cessation of the usual temple-worship. meat offering--Hebrew, mincha; "meat" not in the English sense "flesh," but the unbloody offering made of flour, oil, and frankincense. As it and the drink offering or libation poured out accompanied every sacrificial flesh offering, the latter is included, though not specified, as being also "cut off," owing to there being no food left for man or beast. priests ... mourn--not for their own loss of sacrificial perquisites (Nu 18:8-15), but because they can no longer offer the appointed offerings to Jehovah, to whom they minister.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off - The crops and the vines being destroyed by the locusts, thee total devastation in plants, trees, corn, etc., is referred to and described with a striking variety of expression in this and the following verses.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 1:9 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.

הָכְרַ֥תha.khe.Ratit has been cut offH3772
מִנְחָ֛הmin.Chahgrain offeringH4503
וָנֶ֖סֶךְva.Ne.sekhand drink offeringH5262
מִבֵּ֣יתmi.Beitfrom [the] house ofH1004
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אָֽבְלוּ֙'a.ve.Luthey are in mourningH56
הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםha.Ko.ha.Nimthe priestsH3548
מְשָׁרְתֵ֖יme.sha.re.Tei[the] servants ofH8334
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

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

Cross references for Joel 1:9

  • Joel 2:14

    Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

  • 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?

  • Hosea 9:4

    They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Lamentations 1:16

    For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:10

    But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the Lord, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

  • Lamentations 1:4

    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 is in bitterness.

  • Joel 1:16

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

  • Exodus 28:1

    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, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
meat.
13,16; 2:14; Ho 9:4
the priests.
2:17; La 1:4,16
the Lord's.
Ex 28:1; 2Ch 13:10; Isa 61:6

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Context

  • Joel 1:8

    Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • Joel 1:9

    The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

  • Joel 1:10

    The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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Joel 1:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Pereció el presente y la libación de la casa de Jehová: los sacerdotes ministros de Jehová hicieron luto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		L’offrande et la libation sont retranchées de la maison de l’ Éternel; les sacrificateurs, les serviteurs de l’ Éternel, mènent deuil;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Speisopfer und Trankopfer sind weggenommen vom Hause Jehovas; es trauern die Priester, die Diener Jehovas. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini; luxerunt sacerdotes, ministri Domini.