Joel 1:8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

English Standard Version
Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

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.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Darby Bible 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.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.

Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:8-13 All who labour only for the meat that perishes, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights of sense, when deprived of them, or disturbed in the enjoyment, lose their joy; whereas spiritual joy then flourishes more than ever. See what perishing, uncertain things our creature-comforts are. See how we need to live in continual dependence upon God and his providence. See what ruinous work sin makes. As far as poverty occasions the decay of piety, and starves the cause of religion among a people, it is a very sore judgment. But how blessed are the awakening judgments of God, in rousing his people and calling home the heart to Christ, and his salvation!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. Lament—O "my land" (Joe 1:6; Isa 24:4).

virgin … for the husband—A virgin betrothed was regarded as married (De 22:23; Mt 1:19). The Hebrew for "husband" is "lord" or "possessor," the husband being considered the master of the wife in the East.

of her youth—when the affections are strongest and when sorrow at bereavement is consequently keenest. Suggesting the thought of what Zion's grief ought to be for her separation from Jehovah, the betrothed husband of her early days (Jer 2:2; Eze 16:8; Ho 2:7; compare Pr 2:17; Jer 3:4).