Joel 1:8

Good News Translation (US Version)

Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12

The Sovereign Lord Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

Malachi 2:15

Didn't God make you one body and spirit with her? What was his purpose in this? It was that you should have children who are truly God's people. So make sure that none of you breaks his promise to his wife.

James 5:1

And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

Jeremiah 3:4

“And now you say to me, ‘You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.

Isaiah 32:11

You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.

Proverbs 2:17

who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.

Lamentations 1:4

No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days. The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan. The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony.