Joel 1:9

Christian Standard Bible

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the  Lord; the priests, who are ministers of the  Lord, mourn.

Cross References

Joel 2:17

Let the priests,  the  Lord’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  Lord, and do not make your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God.

Joel 1:13

Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out their wine offerings to the  Lord, and their sacrifices will not please him. Their food will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it become defiled. For their bread will be for their appetites alone; it will not enter the house of the  Lord.

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the  Lord’s priests; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches.

Joel 1:16

Hasn’t the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Lamentations 1:16

I weep because of these things; my eyes flow  with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to keep me alive. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

2 Chronicles 13:10

“But as for us, the Lord is our God. We have not abandoned him; the priests ministering to the Lord are descendants of Aaron, and the Levites serve at their tasks.

Exodus 28:1

“Have your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest #— #Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.