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


In Context

5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.

7 He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.

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

9 The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Joel 1:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.