Catholic Public Domain Version
"Has not your nourishment perished from before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? "
— Joel 1:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”
“Is not the food 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?”
Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.
Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord:
“Ah, ah, ah, the day!” For the day of the Lord is near, and it will arrive, like a devastation, before the powerful.
Has not your nourishment perished from before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The mules have rotted in their own manure, the barns have been demolished, the wine cellars have been destroyed, because the grain has been ruined.
Why have the animals groaned, the herds of cattle bellowed? because there is no pasture for them. Yes, and even the flocks of sheep have been lost.
To you, O Lord, I will cry out, because fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the countryside.