Bible Cross References
Lament
Joel 1:13-15
13
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, you that minister to God: for the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
14
Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
15
Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
Joel 2:12-14
12
Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:
13
and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.
14
Who knows if He will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God?
Isaiah 22:12
And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;
Isaiah 24:7-12
7
The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
8
The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
9
They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink [it].
10
All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
11
There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
12
And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
Isaiah 32:11
Be amazed, be pained, you confident ones; strip, bare yourselves, gird your loins
Jeremiah 9:17-19
17
Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
18
and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
19
For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How we have become wretched! We are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
James 4:8
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded.
James 4:9
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.
James 5:1
Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!
the husband
Proverbs 2:17
[of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God.
Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not called Me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your youth?
Malachi 2:15
And did he not do well? And [there was] the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take heed to your own spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.