Joel 1:13 - Tree of Life Version

¹³ Gird yourselves and weep, kohanim! Howl, ministers of the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night, ministers of my God. For grain and drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my [Joel's] God, for the cereal or meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

Common English Bible

¹³ Dress for a funeral and grieve, you priests; lament, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in funeral clothing, servants of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering have gone from the temple of your God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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.

Joel 1:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore sought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the floor.

1 Kings 21:27

Now when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued.

Isaiah 22:12

Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the kohanim of Adonai, They will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations and boast in their abundance.

Jeremiah 4:8

Therefore, put on sackcloth— lament and wail! For the fierce anger of Adonai has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 9:10

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair for jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland without inhabitant.

Ezekiel 21:12

Now when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, every hand will be limp, every spirit will be faint, and all knees will turn to water. Behold, it is coming, and it will happen!’” It is a declaration of Adonai Elohim.

Ezekiel 27:31

They will shave themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth. They will weep for you with bitter soul, with bitter lament.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will also gird on sackcloth. Horror will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces. Baldness will be upon all their heads.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do for a moed or for the day of Adonai’s feast?

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting.”

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and may leave a blessing behind Him —so there may be a grain offering and a drink offering for Adonai, your God.

Joel 2:17

Between the porch and the altar let the kohanim, ministers of Adonai, weep, and let them say: “Have pity, Adonai, on Your people. Don’t make Your heritage a scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’”

Numbers 28:14

Their drink offerings shall be: per bull, half a hin of wine, a third of a hin of wine per ram, and, a fourth of a hin per lamb. This will be the monthly burnt offering at each new moon throughout the year.

Numbers 28:4

Prepare one lamb in the morning and the other lamb you are to prepare at twilight,

Numbers 28:7

With each lamb pour out a fourth of a hin of fermented drink at the Sanctuary as a drink offering to Adonai.

Numbers 29:6

Also offer the burnt offering for the month with its grain offering, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their appropriate drink offerings as a pleasing aroma to Adonai, as an offering by fire.

1 Corinthians 4:1

So let each one think of us in this way—as Messiah’s helpers and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Don’t you know that those who perform the holy services eat from the Temple, and those who wait on the altar receive a share at the altar?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Messiah? I am more so—I speak like I’m out of my mind—in labors much more, in prisons much more, in beatings more brutal, near death often.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He also made us competent as servants of a new covenant—not of the letter, but of the Ruach. For the letter kills, but the Ruach gives life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant authority to My two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”