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Joel 1:16 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?Joel 1:16 · King James Version
Joel 1:16 in context
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.
16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- gladnessgîyla revolution (of timeH1524 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- meatʼôkelfoodH400 →
- eyesʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- offkârathto cutH3772 →
- joysimchâhblithesomeness or gleeH8057 →
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We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-20