Joel 1:16

Joel 1:16
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

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Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

Jeremiah 14:3
Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Jeremiah 14:5
And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

Jeremiah 14:6
And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

Amos 4:8
So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

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Psalms 43:4
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

Isaiah 9:3
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

Isaiah 16:10
And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

Jeremiah 48:33
All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

Hosea 9:1
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.

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Joel 2:15
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:

Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

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