Joel 1:8

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.i. e. one who married her as a virgin.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת־שַׂ֖ק עַל־בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽיהָ׃

LXX-Br

Θρήνησον πρὸς μὲ ὑπὲρ νύμφην περιεζωσμένην σάκκον, ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς τὸν παρθενικόν.

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• Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
• Malachi 2:15Has 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.
• James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Isaiah 24:7–12The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink…
• Joel 1:13–15Put 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.…
• Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
• Jeremiah 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
• Jeremiah 9:17–19This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our…
• Amos 8:10I 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…
• Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
• James 4:8–9Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• Joel 2:12–14“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and…

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