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Joel 1:8 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.Joel 1:8 · King James Version
Joel 1:8 in context
6For 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.
7He 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.
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 mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sackclothsaqproperly, a meshH8242 →
- husbandbaʻala masterH1167 →
- Lamentʼâlâhto bewailH421 →
- virginbᵉthûwlâha virginH1330 →
- girdedchâgarto gird onH2296 →
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The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the better borne), but it shall deprive others of their necessary subsistence, who are therefore called to lament (Joe…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-13