Joel 1:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12

When all of this happened, the Lord All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Malachi 2:15

Didn't God create you and your wife to become like one person? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.

James 5:1

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.

Amos 8:10

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Jeremiah 3:4

You call me your father or your long-lost friend;

Isaiah 32:11

Shake and shudder, you women without a care! Strip off your clothes— put on sackcloth.

Proverbs 2:17

who breaks her wedding vows and leaves the man she married when she was young.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!