Joel 1:8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

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 32:11

Shudder, you complacent ones; tremble, you overconfident ones! Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Jeremiah 3:4

Have you not lately called to Me, “My Father. You were my friend in my youth.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.