Joel 1:8

New King James Version

Lament like a virgin girded with 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

And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.

Jeremiah 3:4

Will 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 set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Malachi 2:15

But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!