But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.
Joel 1:9 - Revised Standard Version The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The meal or cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. American Standard Version (1901) The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn. Common English Bible The grain offering and the drink offering are gone from the LORD’s temple. The priests and the LORD’s ministers mourn. Catholic Public Domain Version Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned: |
But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.
“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
but you shall be called the priests of the Lord, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.
“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”
The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away, and she herself suffers bitterly.
They shall not pour libations of wine to the Lord; and they shall not please him with their sacrifices. Their bread shall be like mourners' bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?
Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”