Joel 1:8
Lament like a betulah girded with sackcloth 1 for the ba'al (husband) of her youth. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1
Isaiah 32:11Tremble, ye nashim that are complacently at ease; 1 shake, ye complacent ones; 1 strip you, and make you bare, 1 and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 1
Jeremiah 9:17And let them make haste, 1 and take up a nehi (lamentation) for us, 1 that our eyes may run down with dimah (tears), 1 and our eyelids gush out with mayim. 1
Joel 2:12Therefore also now, saith Hashem, 1 turn ye back to Me with all your lev, 1 and with tzom, and with weeping, and with mourning; 1
Malachi 2:15And did not Hashem make echad? 1 And the remnant of the ruach is Hashemʼs. 1 And why echad? 1 That He might seek zera Elohim. 1 Therefore be shomer of your ruach, 1 and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 1
James 5:1Come now, you who have osher (riches), weep, howling over your miseries coming upon you. + 5:1 Isa 13:6; Ezek 30:2
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 →