Joel 1:8

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12

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

Malachi 2:15

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

James 5:1

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a b

Jeremiah 3:4

Will thou not from this time cry to me, My Father, thou are the guide of my youth?

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women who are at ease. Be troubled, ye careless ones. Strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins.

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

Lamentations 1:4

The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.