Joel 1:16

Joel 1:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

Context of Joel 1:16

14Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. 15Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up. 18How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Joel 1:16 word by word

הֲל֛וֹא נֶ֥גֶד עֵינֵ֖ינוּ אֹ֣כֶל נִכְרָ֑ת מִבֵּ֥ית אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֥ה וָגִֽיל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Is not the meatאֹ֫כֶל'ôkel · foodH400
• cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
• before our eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• joyשִׂמְחָהώimchâh · joyH8057
• and gladnessגִּילgîyl · rejoicingH1524
• from the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
• of our Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430

Cross-references for Joel 1:16

• Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
• Amos 4:6“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
• Deuteronomy 12:6there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
• Deuteronomy 16:10Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.
• Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
• Psalms 105:3Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
• Isaiah 62:8The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;

Commentaries on Joel 1:16

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth were now ripe, the grain now calling for the reaper, and the grapes fully ripe and desiring to be pressed out, they were taken away, when set before their eyes for them to enjoy.” Yea, “joy and gladness from the house of our God.” The joy in the abundance of…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 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 in the national calamity…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-20The prophet Joel describes a severe locust plague that struck Judah and Jerusalem.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. 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).Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 1:16

• Church
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Commentaries on Joel 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings