Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
For the bridegroom of her youth.
King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Holman Bible
mourning for the husband of her youth.
International Standard Version
"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.
A Conservative Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Amplified
Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with
For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].
Bible in Basic English
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Darby Translation
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Julia Smith Translation
Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
King James 2000
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Modern King James verseion
Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.
NET Bible
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
New Heart English Bible
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The Emphasized Bible
Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth.
Webster
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
World English Bible
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Youngs Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
Themes
Lamentations » Examples of » For the miseries of israel
Interlinear
Chagar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 1:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament Over The Land
7
It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.
8
For the bridegroom of her youth.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
Isaiah 24:7-12
The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.
Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth--
Jeremiah 9:17-19
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
Joel 1:13-15
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 2:12-14
"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
James 4:8-9
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.