Joel 1:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Common English Bible

⁸ Lament like a woman dressed in funeral clothing, one who has lost the husband of her youth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:8 Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And has forgotten the covenant of her Elohim.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Master יהוה  of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists.

Jeremiah 3:4

“Shall you not from now on cry to Me, ‘My father, You are the guide of my youth?

Lamentations 1:4

The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.

Amos 8:10

and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness.

Malachi 2:15

And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one alone? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth.

James 5:1

Come now, rich ones, weep, crying aloud over the hardships coming upon you!