American King James Version
"Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. "
— Joel 1:8, American King James Version
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ”
“Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!”
“A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.”
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
“Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.”
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation is come up on my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.
He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bore, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. ¶
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
Be you ashamed, O you farmers; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.