Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Treasury of Scripture Lament. Joel 1:13-15 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth... Joel 2:12-14 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning... 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: Isaiah 24:7-12 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh... Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip you, and make you bore, and gird sackcloth on your loins. Jeremiah 9:17-19 Thus said the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women... James 4:8,9 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded... James 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you. the husband. Proverbs 2:17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. Jeremiah 3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth? Malachi 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed...
Context A Call to Mourning
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. 10The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. 11Be you ashamed, O you farmers; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Darby Bible Translation
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
King James Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Young's Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
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