16Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?


In Context

13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

16 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Joel 1:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea,] joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes- joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?