Joel 1:8

Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.

9The meat offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

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Cross References

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

Isaiah 32:11Be amazed, be pained, ye confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;

Jeremiah 9:17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

Joel 2:12Now therefore, saith the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

Malachi 2:15And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.

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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