Lamentations 1:4 References

4 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because ano one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are bdesolate; Her priests are groaning, Her cvirgins are afflicted, And she herself is dbitter.

d Joel 1:8-13


Joel 1

8 aWail like a virgin bgirded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The agrain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the Lord. The bpriests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.
10 The field is aruined, bThe land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.
11 aBe ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the bharvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The avine dries up And the fig tree fails; The bpomegranate, the cpalm also, and the dapple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, erejoicing dries up From the sons of men.
13 aGird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; bWail, O ministers of the altar! Come, cspend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.