Joel 1:8
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
Isaiah 22:12
And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Proverbs 2:17
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
Isaiah 24:7-12
Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
Jeremiah 3:4
Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?
Jeremiah 9:17-19
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,
Joel 1:13-15
Gird, and lament, ye priests, Howl, ye ministrants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, ministrants of my God, For withheld from the house of your God hath been present and libation.
Joel 2:12-14
And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.
Amos 8:10
And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
James 4:8-9
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
James 5:1
Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;