Joel 1:8

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

Cross-reference

Joel 1:13-15 calls priests to lament and cry to God, extending the personal mourning of Joel 1:8 into corporate worship.

Joel 2:12-14 turns the lament of Joel 1:8 into a call to repentance, urging heartfelt return to God rather than mere sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:12 depicts God summoning weeping and sackcloth as a response to judgment, identical in imagery to Joel's call to lament.

Isaiah 32:11 commands the complacent to put on sackcloth and mourn, closely paralleling the urgent lamentation commanded in Joel 1:8.

Lamentations 2:10 depicts elders and virgins in sackcloth and dust, mirroring Joel's call to mourn like a virgin in sackcloth—both use the same mourning imagery.

Malachi 2:15 warns against treachery to the 'wife of your youth', paralleling Joel's image of the lost 'husband of her youth' in marital context.

Jeremiah 3:4 calls God 'the guide of my youth', mirroring Joel's phrase for a lost spouse, highlighting a personal relationship gone wrong.

Jeremiah 9:17-19 summons professional mourners to wail over judgment, complementing the personal lament imagery of a virgin mourning her husband.

James 4:9 Parallel

James 4:9 calls for mourning and weeping, echoing Joel's lament over loss — a shared call to repentant sorrow.

James 5:1 Parallel

James 5:1 summons the rich to weep and howl over coming miseries, akin to Joel's urgent mourning for devastation.