American Standard Version
"Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. "
— Joel 1:8, American Standard Version
“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, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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 jaw-teeth of a lioness.
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.