Joel 1:13

God's Word

Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Cry loudly, you servants of the altar. Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. Grain offerings and wine offerings are withheld from your God’s temple.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God for the child; he fasted and lay on the ground all night.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these things, he tore his clothes ⌞in distress⌟ and dressed in sackcloth. He fasted, lay in sackcloth, and walked around depressed.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Almighty Lord of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 61:6

You will be called the priests of the Lord. You will be called the servants of our God. You will consume the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their splendor.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn, and cry because the Lord’s burning anger hasn’t turned away from us.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

Ezekiel 21:12

“ ‘Cry and mourn, son of man, because the sword will be used against my people and against all the princes of Israel. I will throw the princes and my people on the sword. So beat your breast, and grieve.

Ezekiel 27:31

They shaved their heads because of you and put on sackcloth. They cried over you with bitterness and with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. All their faces will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.

Hosea 9:5

What will they do on the day of an appointed festival or on the Lord’s festival days?

Joel 2:12

“But even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart— with fasting, crying, and mourning.”

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may reconsider and change his plan and leave a blessing for you. Then you could give grain offerings and wine offerings to the Lord your God.

Joel 2:17

The priests who serve the Lord cry between the altar and the entrance to the temple. They say, “Spare your people, O Lord. Don’t let the people who belong to you become a disgrace. Don’t let the nations ridicule them. Why should people ask, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Numbers 28:14

The wine offering that goes with each bull will be 2 quarts of wine, with each ram 1½ quarts of wine, and with each lamb 1 quart of wine. This will be the monthly burnt offering for every month of the year.

Numbers 28:4

Offer one in the morning and the other at dusk.

Numbers 28:7

Also bring a wine offering of one quart of wine for each lamb. Pour it out to the Lord in a holy place.

Numbers 29:6

Offer these in addition to the monthly burnt offering with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offerings with their proper grain offerings and wine offerings. They are a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:1

People should think of us as servants of Christ and managers who are entrusted with God’s mysteries.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Don’t you realize that those who work at the temple get their food from the temple? Don’t those who help at the altar get a share of what is on the altar?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they Christ’s servants? It’s insane to say it, but I’m a far better one. I’ve done much more work, been in prison many more times, been beaten more severely, and have faced death more often.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

Instead, our lives demonstrate that we are God’s servants. We have endured many things: suffering, distress, anxiety,

Revelation 11:3

I will allow my two witnesses who wear sackcloth to speak what God has revealed. They will speak for 1,260 days.”