Joel.1.9

Joel 1:9

KJV GOD

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’S ministers, mourn.

A Call to Mourning

Cross References

Hosea 9:4

KJV

They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

Israel’s Punishment

Joel 1:13

KJV GOD

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 withholden from the house of your God.

A Call to Repentance

Joel 2:14

KJV GOD

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

Return with All Your Heart

Joel 2:17

KJV GOD

Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?