Joel 1:8

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

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Read Joel 1:8 in the flow of Joel1 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Joel1 to see the surrounding context.

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joel 1:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
  2. Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
  3. Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
  4. Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
  5. Jeremiah 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
  6. Jeremiah 9:17This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  7. 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.
  8. Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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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