Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
Joel 1:8 - King James 2000 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died]. American Standard Version (1901) Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Common English Bible Lament like a woman dressed in funeral clothing, one who has lost the husband of her youth. Catholic Public Domain Version Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones: strip yourselves, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.
Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
The roads to Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.
And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.