NET Bible
"No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the LORD anymore. So the priests, those who serve the LORD, are in mourning."
— Joel 1:9, NET Bible
“The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.”
“The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn. ”
“The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.”
“Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:”
“The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.”
“The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.”
For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness.
They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.
A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the LORD anymore. So the priests, those who serve the LORD, are in mourning.
The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.
Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes– the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!