Joel 1:8

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches of it are made white.

9The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of LORD. The priests, LORD's ministers, mourn.

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Cross References

Isaiah 22:12And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11Tremble, ye women who are at ease. Be troubled, ye careless ones. Strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins.

Jeremiah 9:17Thus says LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come.

Joel 2:12Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

Malachi 2:15And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

James 5:1Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8

Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →

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