Joel 1:8

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.

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

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Cross References

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 32:11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins!

Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, 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, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;

Malachi 2:15And did not one make [them]? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

James 5:1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you].

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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