Old Testament · VERSE 8

Joel 1:8

King James Version

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

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Joel 1:8 in context

Joel 1:6

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Joel 1:7

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Joel 1:8SELECTED VERSE

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

Joel 1:9

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

Joel 1:10

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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