Joel 1:8

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

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 32:11

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

Jeremiah 3:4

Shall you not from this time cry to Me, “My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one comes to the solemn feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.

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.

Malachi 2:15

Did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

James 5:1

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