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Joel 1:16

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? as their food supply was destroyed by the invading hordes of locusts, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? since the various sacrifices and meals of thanksgiving were no longer possible.

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See also Joel 1:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES? - The prophet exhibits the immediate judgment, as if it were already fullilled in act. He sets it in detail before their eyes. “When the fruits of the earth we...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. JOY AND GLADNESS. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 12:6; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 16:11;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the meat_ FOOD, the reference being in particular to the products of the soil mentioned in Joel 1:10. _Meat_in the A.V., and sometimes (as here) in the R.V. as well, is not restricted, as in modern E...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE DAY OF THE LORD -- JOEL 1:14-17:_ Joel encouraged the priest to call for a fast all across the land. It was time for the entire nation to repent. The Law of Moses did not require a regular fast....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES, YEA, JOY AND GLADNESS FROM THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD? - (cf. , "The mea...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MEAT] i.e. food. Many of the celebrations at the Temple were occasions of rejoicing over abundant harvests and the like (Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:13; Deuteronomy 12:6;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹ֛וא נֶ֥גֶד עֵינֵ֖ינוּ אֹ֣כֶל נִכְרָ֑ת מִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _God. None can bring the first-fruits. All appear in mourning._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He repeats the same thing as before, for he reproaches the Jews for being so slow to consider that the hand of God was against them. _Has not the meat, _he says, _been cut off before our eyes? joy and...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IS NOT THE MEAT CUT OFF BEFORE OUR EYES?.... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a matter out of all question, they could not but see it with their eyes; it was a plain case, and not t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God? Ver. 16. _Is not the meat cut off before your eyes_] Heb. before your eyes: and so it appeareth to be the p...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Alas for the day!_ Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an irr...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS NOT THE MEAT? the question does most vehemently affirm, our food, what we should eat, i.e. all provision we should live upon. CUT OFF; devoured by locusts, or withered with drought, it is perished....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:16 food H400 off H3772 (H8738) eyes H5869 Joy H8057 gladness H1524 house H1004 God H430 the meat -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is not the meat cut off before our eyes._ SIN A GREAT DEPRIVATION I. That sin deprives man of his cherished hope. “Is not the meat cut off before our eyes?” 1. This deprivation was unexpected. The...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:16.] Food cut off, the joy of festivals and sacrifices banished. JOEL 1:17. SEED] decayed under the clods. GARNERS] Storehouses went to ruin and prospects of future harvest w...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 4:6; Amos 4:7; Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuterono

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cut off — Devoured by locusts, or withered with drought....

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