SinaiJoel 1:8
American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Joel 1:8 in other translations
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Joel 1:8 in context
- 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
- 7He 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.
- 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- 9The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
- 10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.