Joel 1:13-16

A Call to Lamentation

13 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.
14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]
16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Cross References 13

  • 1. S Genesis 37:34; S Jeremiah 4:8
  • 2. Joel 2:17
  • 3. ver 9; S Hosea 9:4; Joel 2:14
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 20:3
  • 5. S Hosea 4:1
  • 6. John 3:8
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 20:4
  • 8. S Isaiah 2:12; Jeremiah 30:7; S Jeremiah 46:10; S Ezekiel 30:3; Malachi 4:5
  • 9. Isaiah 13:6,9; Joel 2:1,11,31; Joel 3:14; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:14; Zechariah 14:1
  • 10. S Genesis 17:1
  • 11. Isaiah 3:7
  • 12. S Psalms 51:8
  • 13. Deuteronomy 12:7

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