Joel 1:13

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Hosts called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the Lord’s priests; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches.

Jeremiah 4:8

Because of this, put on sackcloth; mourn and wail, for the Lord’s burning anger has not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled — they have gone away.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against My people. It is against all the princes of Israel! They are given over to the sword with My people. Therefore strike your thigh in grief.

Ezekiel 27:31

They shave their heads because of you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They weep over you with deep anguish and bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on a festival day, on the day of the Lord’s feast?

Joel 2:12

Even now — this is the Lord’s declaration — turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, so you can offer grain and wine to the Lord your God.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say: “Have pity on Your people, Lord, and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”

Numbers 28:14

Their drink offerings are to be two quarts of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts with the ram, and one quart with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.

Numbers 28:4

Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight,

Numbers 28:7

The drink offering is to be a quart with each lamb. Pour out the offering of beer to the Lord in the sanctuary area.

Numbers 29:6

These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:1

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman — I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, near death many times.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardship, by difficulties,

Revelation 11:3

I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, , dressed in sackcloth. ”