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Joel 1:8

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Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.

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Such a woman has left her husband she married when she was young, forgetting the promises she made before God.

At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

Shudder, you women relaxing! Tremble, you ladies who feel so safe! Strip off your clothes, bare yourselves and put on sackcloth around your waists.

Didn't you just tell me, “My father, you've been such a close friend to me since I was little.

Even the roads to Zion are in mourning because no one travels on them to go to the religious festivals. All her gates are empty. Her priests groan in sadness. Her girls are suffering. She herself is in bitter distress.

I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

Did he not make you one, and give some of his Spirit to you? And what does he want? Children of God. So watch what you do, and don't be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.

Come on, you rich people! You should weep and wail for all the problems that are coming your way!




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