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Joel 1:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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

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11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

13 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.

14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.

15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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"For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us."

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Amos 8:10

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"I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day."

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Joel 2:17

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"Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”"

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"Your holy place is trampled down and profaned. Your priests mourn in humiliation."

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"Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us."

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Malachi 2:13

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"“This again you do: you cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand."

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Joel 1:1

"The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel."

Joel 1:2

"Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?"

Joel 1:3

"Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation."

Joel 1:4

"What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten."

Joel 1:5

"Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth."

Joel 1:6

"For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness."

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