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Joel 1:8

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

KJV

Plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suæ.

Vulgate

θρήνησον πρὸς μὲ ὑπὲρ νύμφην περιεζωσμένην σάκκον ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς τὸν παρθενικόν.

LXX

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

ASV

אֱלִ֕י כִּ/בְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת שַׂ֖ק עַל בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽי/הָ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֱלִ֕י
'ly
verb · 1×
בְּתוּלַ֖ת
btvlt
noun · 50×
ו
v
noun · 83×
חָג֖וּר
chgvr
verb · 44×
י
y
noun · 46×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שַׂקִּ֔ים
shqym
noun · 48×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 28:16 — Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
  • Isa 3:24 — And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; a
  • Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
  • Joel 1:13 — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the
  • Lam 1:4 — The ways of 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.
  • Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife