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Joel 1:8

Grief

6 For 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.

7 He 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.

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

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

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

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
DARBY
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
BLB
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth over the husband of her youth.
ÅB
Klag som en jomfru som bærer sørgedrakt for sin ungdoms brudgom!
OTB
Sørg som en ung kvinne i sekkestrie
som sørger over sin ungdoms ektemann.
B1930
Klag som en jomfru som bærer sørgedrakt for sin ungdoms brudgom!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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:

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  • Malachi 2:15

    And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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  • James 5:1

    Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

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  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon 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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  • Isaiah 24:7–12

    The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

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  • Joel 1:13–15

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

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  • James 4:8–9

    Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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  • Jeremiah 9:17–19

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

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