Joel 1:13 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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 (KJV), 1611
Joel 1:13 in 6 Bible Translations
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Joel 1:13 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
Joel 1:13 — World English Bible
Joel 1:13 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Gird yourselveswith sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. ”
Joel 1:13 — American Standard Version
Joel 1:13 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Gird, and lament, ye priests, Howl, ye ministrants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, ministrants of my God, For withheld from the house of your God hath been present and libation.”
Joel 1:13 — Young's Literal Translation
Joel 1:13 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of myGod: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of yourGod. ”
Joel 1:13 — Darby Translation
Joel 1:13 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away from the house of your God.”
Joel 1:13 — Geneva Bible
Joel 1:13 in Context — Joel 1
11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The 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.
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.
14 Sanctify 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,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
What Does Joel 1:13 Mean?
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