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Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:8 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

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

    BBE

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

    DBY

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

    WEB

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

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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