Joel 1:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:10

But we have not turned our backs on the LORD God! Aaron's own descendants serve as our priests, and the Levites are their assistants.

Exodus 28:1

Send for your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. They are the ones I have chosen from Israel to serve as my priests.

Isaiah 61:6

But they themselves will be priests and servants of the LORD our God. The treasures of the nations will belong to them, and they will be famous.

Lamentations 1:16

Because of this, I mourn, and tears flood my eyes. No one is here to comfort or to encourage me; we have lost the war— my people are suffering.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

Hosea 9:4

You won't be able to offer sacrifices of wine to the LORD. None of your sacrifices will please him— they will be unclean like food offered to the dead. Your food will only be used to satisfy your hunger; none of it will be brought to the LORD's temple.

Joel 1:13

Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple.

Joel 1:16

Our food is already gone; there's no more celebrating at the temple of our God.

Joel 2:14

I am the LORD your God. Perhaps I will change my mind and treat you with mercy. Then you will be blessed with enough grain and wine for offering sacrifices to me.

Joel 2:17

Tell my servants, the priests, to cry inside the temple and to offer this prayer near the altar: “Save your people, LORD God! Don't let foreign nations make jokes about us. Don't let them laugh and ask, ‘Where is your God?’ ”