Joel 1:9

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

Cross-reference

Joel 1:13 Parallel

Joel 1:13 expands the same crisis, calling priests to lament in sackcloth because the offerings are withheld—directly reinforcing the priests' mourning here.

Joel 1:16 Parallel

Joel 1:16 asks if the meat and joy are not cut off from God's house, echoing the same cessation of offerings that prompts the priests' mourning.

Joel 2:14 Contrast

Joel 2:14 hopes God may restore the meat and drink offering—the opposite of their current loss, contrasting present mourning with potential blessing.

Joel 2:17 Parallel

Joel 2:17 shows priests weeping between porch and altar in intercession, moving from mourning over lost offerings to pleading for mercy.

Exodus 29:40 Historical context

Exodus 29:40 prescribes the grain and drink offerings whose absence Joel 1:9 laments — directly ties the ritual to the disaster.

Leviticus 2:1 Historical context

Leviticus 2:1 gives the law for grain offerings — the type of offering Joel 1:9 reports as cut off from the temple.

Numbers 28:7 Historical context

Numbers 28:7 commands the daily drink offering — directly the offering Joel 1:9 reports as cut off from the temple.

Hosea 9:2 Parallel

In Hosea 9:2, the failure of threshing floor and wine vat parallels the cut-off grain and drink offerings in Joel.

Leviticus 23:13 Historical context

Leviticus 23:13 specifies grain and drink offerings for a festival — the same offerings missing in Joel 1:9.

Numbers 15:9 Historical context

Numbers 15:9 prescribes grain offerings with animal sacrifices — the same type of offering that Joel 1:9 says is cut off.

Lamentations 1:4 describes priests sighing and Zion's ways mourning because no one comes to feasts, similar to priests mourning over cut-off offerings.

Hosea 9:4 Parallel

Hosea 9:4 describes wine offerings no longer accepted and sacrifices polluted, paralleling the cessation of offerings that causes the priests' grief here.