Joel 1:13

New International Version

Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

Isaiah 61:6

And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.

Ezekiel 27:31

They will shave their heads because of you and will put on sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord?

Joel 2:12

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing— grain offerings and drink offerings for the Lord your God.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Numbers 28:14

With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year.

Numbers 28:4

Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,

Numbers 28:7

The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the Lord at the sanctuary.

Numbers 29:6

These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings as specified. They are food offerings presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma.

1 Corinthians 4:1

This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;

Revelation 11:3

And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”