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Joel 1:8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Joel 1:8 · Bible in Basic English
Joel 1:8 in other translations
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
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In context
5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.
10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
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