Joel 1:13

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David entreated God on behalf of the child. He fasted for a period, and he would go in and lie throughout the night on the ground.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and walked meekly.

Isaiah 22:12

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

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be named the priests of the Lord; men shall call you the ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.

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 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry out and howl, son of man; for it shall be against My people, it shall be against all the officials of Israel. Terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon My people; therefore strike your thigh.

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.

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the appointed day, and on the day of the festival of the Lord?

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.

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He might turn aside and relent, and He might leave behind a blessing — a grain offering and a food offering for the Lord your God.

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?’ ”

Numbers 28:14

Their drink offerings will be one-half a hin of wine for a bull, and one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

Numbers 28:4

The one lamb you will offer in the morning, and the other lamb you will offer at evening,

Numbers 28:7

Its drink offering will be one-fourth of a hin for the one lamb. In a holy place you will pour the strong wine to the Lord as a drink offering.

Numbers 29:6

besides the burnt offering of the month and its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their rule, as a pleasing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let a man so regard us as the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that those who minister unto holy things live from the things of the temple? And do you not know that those who wait at the altar partake of the altar?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, often facing death.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in all things we commend ourselves as servants of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distress,

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”