Joel 1:8

New Living Translation

Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your complacency. Strip off your pretty clothes, and put on burlap to show your grief.

Jeremiah 3:4

Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning, for crowds no longer come to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are silent, her priests groan, her young women are crying— how bitter is her fate!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow— as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.

James 5:1

Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.