Joel 1:16 meaning and explanation
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Joel speaks to the people of Judah after a locust plague has stripped the fields. In verse 16 he turns earlier commands to weep into a rhetorical question: the people can see for themselves that food has been cut off, and with it joy and gladness from the house of God.
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