Joel 1:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail: “The blazing anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.”

Joel 2:17

Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, let the ministers of the Lord weep and say: “Spare your people, Lord! do not let your heritage become a disgrace, a byword among the nations! Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” The Lord Relents.

Ezekiel 7:18

They put on sackcloth, horror clothes them; shame is on all their faces, all their heads are shaved bald.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth over his bare flesh. He fasted, slept in the sackcloth, and went about subdued.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Contrast with the Old Covenant.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that those who perform the temple services eat [what] belongs to the temple, and those who minister at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?

1 Corinthians 4:1

Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Isaiah 61:6

You yourselves shall be called “Priests of the Lord,” “Ministers of our God” you shall be called. You shall eat the wealth of the nations and in their riches you will boast.

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God on behalf of the child. He kept a total fast, and spent the night lying on the ground clothed in sackcloth.

Numbers 29:6

These are in addition to the burnt offering for the new moon with its grain offering, and in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, together with the libations prescribed for them, for a pleasing aroma, an oblation to the Lord. On the Day of Atonement.

Revelation 11:3

I will commission my two witnesses to prophesy for those twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Ezekiel 21:12

When they ask you, “Why are you groaning?” you shall say: Because of what I heard! When it comes every heart shall melt, every hand fall helpless; every spirit will grow faint, and every knee run with water. See, it is coming, it is here!—oracle of the Lord God. Song of the Sword.

Hosea 9:5

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

Joel 2:14

Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind a blessing, Grain offering and libation for the Lord, your God.

Numbers 28:4

offering one lamb in the morning and the other during the evening twilight,

Numbers 28:7

And as the libation for the first lamb, you will make a libation to the Lord in the sanctuary of a fourth of a hin of strong drink.

Numbers 28:14

Their libations will consist of a half a hin of wine for each bull, a third of a hin for the ram, and a fourth of a hin for each lamb. This is the burnt offering for the new moon, for every new moon through the months of the year.

Ezekiel 27:31

For you they shave their heads bald and put on sackcloth; For you they weep bitterly, in anguished lament.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now—oracle of the Lord— return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.