Joel 1:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ”

Joel 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 ear...
Joel 1:16 - 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 ritu...
Joel 1:16 - 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 ; Deuteronomy 16:14 ; Deuteronomy 16:15 ).
Joel 1:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Joel 1:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:16 - 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. Joe...
Joel 1:16 - 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 1:2-4 ), an...
Joel 1:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 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...
Joel 1:16 - 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. Th...
Joel 1:16 - 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 l...
Joel 1:16 - 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...
Joel 1:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 no...
Joel 1:16 - 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...
Joel 1:16 - 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 ir...
Joel 1:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. B. C. 720. 14 Sanctify ye a fast,...
Joel 1:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 peri...
Joel 1:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Description of the Plague And Its Consequences ( Joel 1:6-18 ). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences...
Joel 1:16 - 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 f...
Joel 1:16 - 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 presume...
Joel 1:16 - 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...
Joel 1:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Joel 1:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prescribing Fasting and Penitence
Joel 1:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 4:6 ; Amos 4:7 ; Deuteronomy 12:11 ; Deuteronomy 12:12 ; Deuteronomy 12:6 ; Deuteronomy 12:7 ; Deuteronomy 16:10-15 ; Isaiah 62:8 ; Isaiah 62:9 ; Joel 1:13 ; Joel 1:5-9 ; Psalms 105:...
Joel 1:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

Joel 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 1:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 1:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes