Joel 1:16
Good News Translation
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.

New Revised Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Contemporary English Version
Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.

New American Bible
Before our very eyes has not food been cut off? And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

the meat.

Joel 1:5-9,13 Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth. . . .

Amos 4:6,7 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord. . . .

joy.

Deuteronomy 12:6,7,11,12 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:10-15 And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God. . . .

Psalm 43:4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Psalm 105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

Isaiah 62:8,9 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. . . .

Context
A Call to Repentance
15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty. 16Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:7
And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

Psalm 43:4
And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Psalm 51:8
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Isaiah 3:7
In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

Amos 4:6
Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

Joel 1:15
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