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Joel 1:16
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:16 · Webster Bible
Joel 1:16 in other translations
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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In context
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 withheld from the house of your God.
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 to the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
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