Joel 1:8

New English Translation

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves – put sackcloth on your waist!

Jeremiah 3:4

Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish! ה (He)

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

Malachi 2:15

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.