Isaiah 22:12

Modern English Version

In that day the Lord God of Hosts called you to weeping and mourning, and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.

Cross References

Joel 2:17

Between the temple porch and the altar, let the priests, ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Have pity upon Your people, and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, a mockery among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and shave your head for the children of your delight; make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into dirges; I will put sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Isaiah 15:2

he has gone up to the temple and to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also put obscurity in their hearts so that people do not come to know the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance;

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped.

Nehemiah 9:9

“When You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this, I tore my clothes and my robe, plucked out the hair of my head and from my beard, and sat down astonished.

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of sweet perfume there shall be a stench; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of fine clothes, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Isaiah 26:10

Though favor is shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals unjustly and does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.

Isaiah 29:1

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David lived! Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless daughters; strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You take no notice?” Behold, in the day of your fast you find your desire and are exacting on all your laborers.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird yourself with sackcloth, lament and howl. For the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried; neither will men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 16:8

Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Ezekiel 27:31

Also they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth; and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for one thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult like the peoples, for you have played the whore departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on every threshing floor.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Isaiah 37:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 37:2

He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.