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. Before our eyes; we see it, it is not so far off as what is foretold, it is under our eye. Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God: sacrifices fail much, and priests have scarce enough to live upon, while free-will offerings, first-fruits, and tithes amount to very little, not sufficient to feast the sacrificers and offerers, who on such occasion did use to rejoice in the house of God.
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Joel 1:16
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?