Verse 8
Joel 1:8
Bible in Basic English
8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֱלִ֕י כִּ/בְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת שַׂ֖ק עַל בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽי/הָ
English Translation
My God, a virgin clothed in sackcloth for her youthful husband.
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Chapter 1 Context
1
The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
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2
Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your day...
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3
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to...
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4
What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take...
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5
Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries o...
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6
For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion,...
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7
By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to...
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8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
9
The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests,...
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10
The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back,...
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11
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the b...
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12
The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-...
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13
Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servant...
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14
Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the peopl...
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15
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it wil...
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16
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God (Elohim)?
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17
The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-sto...
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18
What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no gras...
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19
O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the...
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20
The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has p...
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