Discovery BoxJoel 1:9 
Context1:9 No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings
to the temple 1 of the Lord anymore. 2
So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.
Joel 3:3
Context3:3 and they cast lots for my people.
They traded 3 a boy for a prostitute;
they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. 4
1 tn Heb “house.” So also in vv. 13, 14, 16.
2 tn Heb “grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of the
3 tn Heb “gave.”
4 sn Heb “and they drank.” Joel vividly refers to a situation where innocent human life has little value; its only worth is its use in somehow satisfying selfish appetites of wicked people who have control over others (cf. Amos 2:6 and 8:6).
