Bible Cross References
Lament
Joel 1:13-15
13
Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Howl, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who serve my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.
14
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
15
Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Joel 2:12-14
12
Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning, declares Jehovah.
13
So, tear your heart, and not your garments; and return to Jehovah your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He has compassion concerning the evil.
14
Who knows if He will turn and have pity and leave a blessing behind Him, a food offering and a drink offering for Jehovah your God?
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called for weeping and mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Isaiah 24:7-12
7
The new wine mourns, the vine droops, all the merry-hearted sigh.
8
The mirth of the tambourines ceases; the tumult of the jubilant ends; the joy of the harp ceases.
9
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10
The city of emptiness is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.
11
There is a cry for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land has gone.
12
Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is battered and destroyed.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your loins.
Jeremiah 9:17-19
17
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider carefully, and call for those who lament, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;
18
and let them make haste and take up a lamentation for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.
19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion. How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because they have thrown down our tents.
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 be turned to mourning and your joy to shame.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.
the husband
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the guide of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not now cry to Me, My father, You are the guide of my youth?
Malachi 2:15
And has He not made them one? Yet the remnant of the Spirit is in him. And why one? He was seeking a seed of God. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.