Jeremiah 4:8
8For this aput on sackcloth,lament and wail,
for bthe fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned back from us.”
Jeremiah 9:10
10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,and a lamentation for cthe pastures of the wilderness,
dbecause they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
eboth the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
Ezekiel 7:18
18 fThey put on sackcloth, and ghorror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and hbaldness on all their heads.Joel 1:8-9
8 Lament like a virgin ▼▼Or young woman
jwearing sackclothfor the bridegroom of her youth.
9 kThe grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
lThe priests mourn,
mthe ministers of the Lord.
Joel 2:17
17 nBetween the ovestibule and the paltarqlet the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations. ▼
▼Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them
sWhy should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”
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