American Standard Version
"Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? "
— Joel 1:16, American Standard Version
“Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
“Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
“Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!”
“Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
“Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?”
“Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
Gird yourselveswith sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.