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Joel 1:8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Joel 1:8 · World English Bible
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 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
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