Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Ye ministers
General references
Bible References
Gird
Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
For the bridegroom of her youth.
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
Weepbetween the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance areproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘Where is their God?’”
Weep
And let them say, “
And do not make Your inheritance a
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘
Jeremiah 4:8 “For this, put on sackcloth,
Lament and wail;
For thefierce anger of the Lord
Has not turned back from us.”
Lament and wail;
For the
Has not turned back from us.”
Jeremiah 9:10 “For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of thewilderness a dirge,
Because they arelaid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both thebirds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
And for the pastures of the
Because they are
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the
Ezekiel 7:18
They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.
Ye ministers
1 Corinthians 9:13 Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?
Hebrews 7:13
For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
Isaiah 61:6 But you will be called the priests of the Lord;
You will be spoken of asministers of our God.
You will eat thewealth of nations,
And in theirriches you will boast.
You will be spoken of as
You will eat the
And in their
1 Corinthians 4:1
Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.
Lie
2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore inquired of God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.
1 Kings 21:27
It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
Jonah 3:5
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.
For
Joel 1:9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of the Lord.
Thepriests mourn,
The ministers of the Lord.
From the house of the Lord.
The
The ministers of the Lord.
Leviticus 2:8
When you bring in the grain offering which is made of these things to the Lord, it shall be presented to the priest and he shall bring it to the altar.
Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
General references
Isaiah 37:2
Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.