meat offering = the meal or gift offering. Hebrew. minchah. See App-43. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 2). App-92. Compare Joel 2:14.
drink offering. Ref to Pentateuch (Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 23:13.Numbers 15:3-10; Numbers 15:3-10) and App-92. See App-43.
ministers. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 3:6, &c.) App-92.
field... wasted. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. shuddad... sadeh
land. soil. Hebrew 'adamah Not the same word as in verses: Joel 2:6; Joel 2:14, &c., in this book; but the same as in Joel 2:21. Verses 10-12 show why the offerings cannot be brought.
new wine. Hebrew tirosh. App-27. Same word as in Joel 2:19; Joel 2:24. Not the some as in Joel 1:5 and Joe 8:18.