Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark. 8 "Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry. 9 Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning."
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
Proverbs 2:17
someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.
Isaiah 24:7-12
The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan.
Isaiah 32:11
So tremble, you ladies of leisure! Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent! Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist! Then wrap yourself in sackcloth and beat your breasts.
Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not just called out to me, "My father, you are the friend of my youth
Jeremiah 9:17-19
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Think about what I'm saying! Indeed, call out the professional mourners! Send for the best of them to come.
Joel 1:13-15
"Put on your mourning clothes, you priests; and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar! Come! Stay the night in mourner's clothes, you ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.
Joel 2:12-14
"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Turn back to me with your whole heart, with fasting, tears, and mourning.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day."
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
James 4:8-9
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 5:1
Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.