World English Bible
"The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn."
— Joel 1:9, World English 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. ”
“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.”
“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 come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.