The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord. The greatest sorrow to the mind of a religious Jew, and what ought to impress the whole nation with a sense of God's displeasure, is the cessation of the usual temple worship.
Meat offering - Hebrew, minchaah (H4503); "meat" not in the English sense 'flesh,' but the unbloody offering made of flour, oil, and frankincense. Since it and the drink offering or libation poured out accompanied every sacrificial flesh offering, the latter is included, though not specified, as being also "cut off," owing to there being no food left for man or beast.
The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn - not for their own loss of sacrificial perquisites (Numbers 18:8-15), but The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn - not for their own loss of sacrificial perquisites (Numbers 18:8-15), but because they can no longer offer the appointed offerings to Yahweh, to whom they minister.