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!"
— Joel 1:16, NET Bible
“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?”
“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?”
Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.
Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.
Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!
The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.