Joel 1:8

Wail as a bride, clad in sack-cloth, for the husband of her youth.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7It has laid waste my vines, and barked my fig tree; it has peeled and cast it away, bleached are the branches.

9Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.

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Cross References

Joel 2:12But now this is the message of the Lord: Turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting and weeping and mourning,

Malachi 2:15Did not the one God make everyone, so that all both flesh and spirit is his? And what does that one God seek but godly children? Therefore keep watch over your spirit, and let none of you deal faithlessly with the wife of your youth.

James 5:1Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the 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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