New King James Version
Joel 1:16
16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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?
- New International Version (NIV)Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— 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 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
14Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord. 15Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered. 18How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
Read all of Joel 1Joel 1:16 word by word
הֲל֛וֹא נֶ֥גֶד עֵינֵ֖ינוּ אֹ֣כֶל נִכְרָ֑ת מִבֵּ֥ית אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֥ה וָגִֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Joel 1:16
- Joel 1:5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Amos 4:6“Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 12:6There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Deuteronomy 16:10Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.
- Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.
- Psalms 105:3Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!
- Isaiah 62:8The Lord has sworn by His right hand And by the arm of His strength: “Surely I will no longer give your grain As food for your enemies; And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine, For which you have labored.
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
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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
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