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 expands the same crisis, calling priests to lament in sackcloth because the offerings are withheld—directly reinforcing the priests' mourning here.
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 hopes God may restore the meat and drink offering—the opposite of their current loss, contrasting present mourning with potential blessing.
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 prescribes the grain and drink offerings whose absence Joel 1:9 laments — directly ties the ritual to the disaster.
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 commands the daily drink offering — directly the offering Joel 1:9 reports as cut off from the temple.
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 specifies grain and drink offerings for a festival — the same offerings missing in Joel 1:9.
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 describes wine offerings no longer accepted and sacrifices polluted, paralleling the cessation of offerings that causes the priests' grief here.