Joel 1:9 (DBY)

Passage

The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

Nearby Context

Joel 1:7 He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.

Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:9 The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

Joel 1:10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Joel 1:11 Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "oblation", "drink-offering", "house", "jehovah", "priests", "jehovah's", "ministers", and "mourn". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "oblation" and "drink-offering", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth..." into verse 10's "The field is laid waste the land...", so "oblation" and "drink-offering" belong inside that flow. In Joel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "oblation" and "drink-offering" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.