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
He has laid my vine waste and stripped off the bark of my fig tree. He stripped its branches white and clean and threw it away.
8
For the bridegroom of her youth.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.
Proverbs 2:17
She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.
Isaiah 24:7-12
The new wine mourns, the vine decays and the merry-hearted sigh.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist,
Jeremiah 3:4
Now you call to me. You say, 'Father!' You have been my friend ever since I was young.
Jeremiah 9:17-19
Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come!
Joel 1:13-15
Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.
Joel 2:12-14
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.
Malachi 2:15
Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
James 4:8-9
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.