Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

the meat.

Joel 1:5-9,13 Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth. . . .

Amos 4:6,7 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord. . . .

joy.

Deuteronomy 12:6,7,11,12 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:10-15 And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God. . . .

Psalm 43:4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Psalm 105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

Isaiah 62:8,9 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. . . .