Cross references
Joel 1:8
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth,
grieving for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:8 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 22:12 (6 votes) and Malachi 2:15 (4 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to James 5.
Which verses does Joel 1:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 22:126 votes
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Malachi 2:154 votes
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- James 5:13 votes
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Proverbs 2:172 votes
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- Isaiah 24:7–122 votes
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. …
- Isaiah 32:112 votes
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- Jeremiah 3:42 votes
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
- Jeremiah 9:17–192 votes
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. …
- Joel 1:13–152 votes
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. …
- Joel 2:12–142 votes
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. …
- Amos 8:102 votes
- James 4:8–92 votes
Which verses point to Joel 1:8?
The 10 strongest of 12.