Joel 1:8 “Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of h…”

Joel 1:8

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Bible in Basic English

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

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Cross references

“Lament”

Isaiah 22:12 James 5:1 Joel 1:13–15 Joel 2:12–14 Isaiah 24:7–12 Isaiah 32:11

Isaiah 22:12 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

James 5:1 · BSB

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

Joel 1:13–15 · BSB

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 2:12–14 · BSB

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Isaiah 24:7–12 · BSB

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 32:11 · BSB

Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

“the husband”

Malachi 2:15 Proverbs 2:17 Jeremiah 3:4

Malachi 2:15 · BSB

Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 2:17 · BSB

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Jeremiah 3:4 · BSB

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

Also

Amos 8:10

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

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