Joel 1:8
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
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Lament.

Joel 1:13-15
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
Yet even now, declares the LORD, return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. . . .

Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Isaiah 24:7-12
The new wine dries up; the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. . . .

Isaiah 32:11
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Jeremiah 9:17-19
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. . . .

James 4:8, 9
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. . . .

James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail for the misery to come upon you.

the husband.

Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not just called to Me, 'My Father, You are my friend from youth.

Malachi 2:15
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. Therefore guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

International Standard Version
"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.

NET Bible
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
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