Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.
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.
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 They shall make my vineyard waste, they shall pull off the bark of my fig trees, strip them bare, cast them away, and make the branches white. 8 Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom. 9 For the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of the LORD: and the priests, the LORD's ministers, shall mourn.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
Proverbs 2:17
forsaketh the husband of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Isaiah 24:7-12
The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh.
Isaiah 32:11
O ye rich idle cities, ye that fear no peril: ye shall be abashed and removed, when ye see the bareness, the nakedness, and preparing to war.
Jeremiah 3:4
Else wouldst thou say unto me, 'O my father, thou art he that hast brought me up, and led me from my youth:
Jeremiah 9:17-19
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Look that ye call for mourning wives, and send for wise women: that they come shortly,
Joel 1:13-15
Gird you, and make your moan, O ye priests: mourn ye ministers of the alter: go your way in, and sleep in sackcloth, O ye officers of my God: for the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of your God.
Joel 2:12-14
And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.
Amos 8:10
Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.
Malachi 2:15
So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.
James 4:8-9
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.