Joel 1:16 KJV — MannaFest

Joel 1:16

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

KJV

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WEB

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

DBT

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of ourGod?

ASV

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

YLT

Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

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Joel — A locust plague, a call to return, and a promise of the Spirit poured out on all flesh — the text Peter will cite on the day of Pentecost.

Author: Joel son of Pethuel (1:1)
Date: Disputed — proposals range from 9th c. BC (early pre-exilic) to post-exilic 5th c. BC; the book itself is undated

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Habakkuk 3:17
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Ruth 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Psalms 105:3
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

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This Joel was long after that. He here speaks of a sad and sore judgment which was now brought, or to be brought, upon Judah, for their sins. The greatness of the judgment, expressed here in two things:-- 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Is not the meat many a time cut off before our eyes? Let us then labour for that spiritual meat which is not before our eyes, and which cannot be cut off. (2.) Let them look into God's house, and see the effects of the judgment there; joy and gladness were cut off from the house of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Compare Joe 1:9, and latter part of Joe 1:12. joy--which prevailed at the annual feasts, as also in the ordinary sacrificial offerings, of which the offerers ate before the Lord with gladness and thanksgivings (De 12:6, 7, 12;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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