Parallel Verses
Amplified
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes,
Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
New American Standard Bible
Gladness and
King James Version
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Holman Bible
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
International Standard Version
Isn't our food supply cut off right in front of us, along with joy and gladness from the Temple of our God?
A Conservative Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
American Standard Version
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Bible in Basic English
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
Darby Translation
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Julia Smith Translation
Was not the food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
King James 2000
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is] not food cut [off] before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
Modern King James verseion
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall not the meats be taken away before our eyes, the mirth also and joy from the house of our God?
NET Bible
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!
New Heart English Bible
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The Emphasized Bible
Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation.
Webster
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
World English Bible
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?
Interlinear
Karath
References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 1:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Lamentation
15
Alas for the day!
For the [judgment] day of the Lord is at hand,
And it will come [upon the nation] as a destruction from the
Has not the food been cut off before our eyes,
Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The seeds [of grain] shrivel under the clods,
The storehouses are desolate and empty,
The barns are in ruins
Because the grain is dried up.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:6-7
There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive (pledged, vowed) offerings, your freewill (voluntary) offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
Psalm 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God, my exceeding joy;
With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!
Deuteronomy 12:11-12
then it shall come about that the place which the Lord your God will choose for His Name [and Presence] to dwell; there you shall bring everything that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes and the [voluntary] contribution of your hand [as a first gift from the fruits of the ground], and all your choice votive offerings which you vow to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:10-15
Then you shall celebrate the
Psalm 105:3
Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those who seek and require the Lord [as their most essential need] rejoice.
Isaiah 3:7
He will protest on that day, saying,
“I will not be a
For in my house there is neither bread nor clothing;
You should not make me a judge and ruler of the people.”
Isaiah 62:8-9
The Lord has sworn [an oath] by His right hand and by His mighty arm,
“I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies,
Nor will [the invading] foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”
Joel 1:5-9
Awake [from your intoxication], you drunkards, and weep;
Wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the [fresh] sweet wine
That is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:13
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth
And lament (cry out in grief), O priests;
Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, spend the night in sackcloth [and pray without ceasing],
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Amos 4:6-7
“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.