Verse 16

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 43:4 : 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
  • Deut 12:6-7 : 6 Bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, what you have vowed to give, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has blessed you with.
  • Deut 12:11-12 : 11 Then to the place the Lord your God chooses for His name to dwell, you shall bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and all the choice offerings you have vowed to the Lord. 12 You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
  • Deut 16:10-15 : 10 Celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these decrees. 13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce from your threshing floor and winepress. 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
  • Ps 105:3 : 3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
  • Isa 3:7 : 7 But he will say in that day, ‘I will not be a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not appoint me as the ruler of the people.’
  • Isa 62:8-9 : 8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: 'I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.' 9 But those who harvest it will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.
  • Joel 1:5-9 : 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has invaded my land, strong and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness. 7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white. 8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. 9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.
  • Joel 1:13 : 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
  • Amos 4:6-7 : 6 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it.