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 Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,
mourning for the husband of her youth.
mourning for the husband of her youth.
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
weep between the portico and the altar.
Let them say:
“Have pity on Your people, Lord,
and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace,
an object of scorn among the nations.
Why should it be said among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”
weep between the portico and the altar.
Let them say:
“Have pity on Your people, Lord,
and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace,
an object of scorn among the nations.
Why should it be said among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”
Jeremiah 4:8 Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,
for the Lord’s burning anger
has not turned away from us.
mourn and wail,
for the Lord’s burning anger
has not turned away from us.
Jeremiah 9:10 I will raise weeping and a lament
over the mountains,
a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,
for they have been so scorched
that no one passes through.
The sound of cattle is no longer heard.
From the birds of the sky to the animals,
everything has fled—they have gone away.
over the mountains,
a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,
for they have been so scorched
that no one passes through.
The sound of cattle is no longer heard.
From the birds of the sky to the animals,
everything has fled—they have gone away.
Ezekiel 7:18 They will put on sackcloth,
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.
Ye ministers
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?
Hebrews 7:13
For the One these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.
Isaiah 61:6 But you will be called the Lord’s priests;
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will eat the wealth of the nations,
and you will boast in their riches.
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will eat the wealth of the nations,
and you will boast in their riches.
1 Corinthians 4:1
A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.
2 Corinthians 3:6
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.
2 Corinthians 6:4
But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:
by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,
by hardship, by difficulties,
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death many times.
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death
Lie
2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.
Jonah 3:5
The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.
For
Joel 1:9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.
Leviticus 2:8
When you bring to the Lord the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.
Numbers 29:6
These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.
General references
Isaiah 37:2
Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.