Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
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.
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 my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! 9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
Isaiah 24:7-12
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
Jeremiah 9:17-19
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:
Joel 1:13-15
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
Joel 2:12-14
"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "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; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his 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 your miseries that are coming on you.