Joel 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Wail like a young woman dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

One who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

Isaiah 22:12

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

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

Jeremiah 3:4

Even now do you not call me, “My father, you are the bridegroom of my youth?

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, empty of pilgrims to her feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, Her young women grieve; her lot is bitter.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with flesh and spirit? And what does the One require? Godly offspring! You should be on guard, then, for your life, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.