The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. Treasury of Scripture meat. Joel 1:13,16 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth... Joel 2:14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him... Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him... the priests. Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD... Lamentations 1:4,16 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh... the Lord's. Exodus 28:1 And take you to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel... 2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister to the LORD, are the sons of Aaron... Isaiah 61:6 But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles...
Context A Call to Mourning
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. 10The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. 11Be you ashamed, O you farmers; howl, O you 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 languishes; 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. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:
Darby Bible Translation
The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
King James Bible
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Young's Literal Translation
Cut off hath been present and libation from the house of Jehovah, Mourned have the priests, ministrants of Jehovah.
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