Joel 1:9

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Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.

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  • Joel 2:14 : 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing—grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'
  • Hos 9:4 : 4 They will no longer pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will become defiled. Their food will only satisfy their own appetite; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
  • Joel 1:13 : 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But you will be called the priests of the Lord; they will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you will boast.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
  • Lam 1:16 : 16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."
  • Exod 28:1 : 1 Now bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.
  • 2 Chr 13:10 : 10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him. The priests who serve the LORD are the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites carry out their responsibilities.
  • Joel 1:16 : 16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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  • Joel 1:10-17
    8 verses
    87%

    10The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

    11Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people.

    13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Declare a holy fast; proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

    15Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

    16Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Joel 1:8
    81%

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • Hos 9:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4They will no longer pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will become defiled. Their food will only satisfy their own appetite; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

    5What will you do on the day of your appointed festival, on the day of the LORD’s feast?

  • Lam 1:4
    76%

    4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

  • Mal 2:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12The Lord will cut off from the tents of Jacob anyone who does this—any one who is alert and responsive—but still presents an offering to the Lord of Hosts.

    13And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hands.

  • Joel 1:5
    74%

    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Isa 22:12
    74%

    12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • Joel 2:17
    74%

    17Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • Isa 24:7
    74%

    7The new wine dries up, the vine withers, and all the merry-hearted groan.

  • Lam 2:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.

    7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • Jer 12:11
    73%

    11They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

  • Ps 78:64
    73%

    64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

  • Lam 5:15
    73%

    15The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing has turned into mourning.

  • Jer 9:10
    73%

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Amos 5:16
    72%

    16Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

  • Jer 16:5
    72%

    5For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.

  • Amos 8:10
    72%

    10'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

  • Isa 3:1
    72%

    1See now, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and Judah support and supply, both bread and water.

  • Isa 16:10
    72%

    10Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • Isa 33:9
    72%

    9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

    11All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to stay alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised."

  • Jer 9:18
    72%

    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

  • Isa 24:11
    72%

    11In the streets, there is an outcry over the wine; all joy turns dark, and the gladness of the earth departs.

  • Hos 4:3
    72%

    3Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish, along with the beasts of the field, the birds of the skies, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

  • Lam 1:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, all you peoples; look at my suffering. My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

    19I called to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while searching for food to revive their strength.

  • Mal 1:10
    71%

    10Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors so you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will not accept any offerings from your hands.

  • Jer 14:12
    71%

    12Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry; even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will consume them by sword, famine, and plague.

  • Jer 14:2
    71%

    2Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up.

  • Jer 16:7
    71%

    7No one will break bread for the bereaved to comfort them for the dead. Nor will anyone offer them a cup of consolation for their father or mother.

  • Mal 1:7
    71%

    7By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Lam 2:20
    71%

    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 23:9
    71%

    9Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like one overcome by wine, because of the LORD and His holy words.

  • Isa 24:4
    71%

    4The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

  • Mal 1:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12But you profane it by saying, 'The LORD's table is defiled, and its food is contemptible.'

    13You say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it with contempt, says the LORD of Hosts. When you bring stolen, lame, or sick animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands? says the LORD.

  • Hos 9:2
    70%

    2The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Jer 7:29
    70%

    29Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

  • Jer 44:18
    70%

    18But since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by sword and famine.