Catholic Public Domain Version
"Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth."
— Joel 1:8, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth.
For a nation has ascended over my land: strong and without number. His teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and his molars are like that of a lion’s young.
He has put my vineyard into desolation, and he has pulled off the bark of my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches have become white.
Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.
Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.
The region has been depopulated, the soil has mourned. For the wheat has been devastated, the wine has been disfigured, the oil has languished.
The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.