Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Bible References

Lament

Joel 1:13
Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 2:12
Even now—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
turn to Me with all your heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
Isaiah 32:11
Shudder, you complacent ones;
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare
and put sackcloth around your waists.
Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
James 5:1
Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

The husband

Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not lately called to Me, “My Father.
You were my friend in my youth.
Malachi 2:15
Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

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