OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 9

Joel 1:9

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The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house.

The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

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Joel 1:9 in context

Joel 1:6–12

6

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.

His teeth are the teeth of a lion,

and he has the fangs of a lioness.

7

He has laid my vine waste,

and stripped my fig tree.

He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.

Its branches are made white.

8

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth

for the husband of her youth!

9
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The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house.

The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

10

The field is laid waste.

The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,

The new wine has dried up,

and the oil languishes.

11

Be confounded, you farmers!

Wail, you vineyard keepers,

for the wheat and for the barley;

for the harvest of the field has perished.

12

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered—

the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,

even all of the trees of the field are withered;

for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

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