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Joel 1:13 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.Joel 1:13 · King James Version
Joel 1:13 in context
11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12The 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.
13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ministersshârathto attend as a menial or worshipperH8334 →
- sackclothsaqproperly, a meshH8242 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- lamentçâphadproperly, to tear the hair and beat the breastsH5594 →
- altarmizbêachan altarH4196 →
- nightlûwnto stopH3885 →
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The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the better borne), but it shall deprive others of their necessary subsistence, who are therefore called to lament (Joe…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-13