King James Version with Apocrypha
"Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"
— Joel 1:16, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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?”
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.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn 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 Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.