Joel 1:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.”
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BSBPD
“Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Joel 1:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- Jeremiah 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
- Jeremiah 9:17This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
- Joel 1:13Put 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“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- 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 like a bitter day.
- 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 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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