Joel 1:9
Good News Translation
There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow.

New American Bible
Grain offering and libation are cut off from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:

meat.

Joel 1:13,16 Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God. . . .

Joel 2:14 Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

the priests.

Joel 2:17 Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Lamentations 1:4,16 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. . . .

the Lord's.

Exodus 28:1 Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2 Chronicles 13:10 But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their order.

Isaiah 61:6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.

Context
A Call to Mourning
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:10The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.…
Cross References
Hosea 9:4
They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.

Joel 2:14
Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

Joel 2:17
Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Joel 1:8
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