Joel 1:16

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

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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 det...
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...
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...
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...
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 a...
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 reme...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Meat ] i.e. food. Many of the celebrations at the Temple were occasions of rejoicing over abundant harvests and the like ( Deuteronomy 16:10 ; Deut...
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 lo...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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...
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 particula...
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 s...
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 ] He...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. B. C. 720....
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; devoure...
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 la...
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. Gar...
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 ei...
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 befor...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prescribing Fasting and Penitence
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? as their food supply was destroyed by the invading hordes of locusts, yea, joy and gladness from the house...
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 ; Isa...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

¹⁶ Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Related Commentaries of Joel 1:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joel 1:16