Joel 1:8 KJV — MannaFest

Joel 1:8

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

YLT

Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

DBT

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

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Joel — A locust plague, a call to return, and a promise of the Spirit poured out on all flesh — the text Peter will cite on the day of Pentecost.

Author: Joel son of Pethuel (1:1)
Date: Disputed — proposals range from 9th c. BC (early pre-exilic) to post-exilic 5th c. BC; the book itself is undated

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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 house of your God.
Isaiah 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:
Malachi 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 of his youth.
Lamentations 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.
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

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), as a virgin laments the death of her lover to whom she was espoused, but not completely married, yet so that he was in effect her husband, or as a young woman lately married, from whom the husband of her youth, her young husband, or the husband to whom she was married when she was young, is suddenly taken away by death.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Lament--O "my land" (Joe 1:6; Isa 24:4). virgin . . . for the husband--A virgin betrothed was regarded as married (De 22:23; The Hebrew for "husband" is "lord" or "possessor," the husband being considered the master of the wife in the East. of her youth--when the affections are strongest and when sorrow at bereavement is consequently keenest.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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