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Joel 1

Joel 1:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lament
'alah (Hebrew #421)
to bewail
KJV usage: lament.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 422 through the idea of invocation)
like a virgin
bthuwlah (Hebrew #1330)
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
KJV usage: maid, virgin.
Pronounce: beth-oo-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate
girded
chagar (Hebrew #2296)
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
KJV usage: be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.
Pronounce: khaw-gar'
Origin: a primitive root
with sackcloth
saq (Hebrew #8242)
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
KJV usage: sack(-cloth, -clothes).
Pronounce: sak
Origin: from 8264
for the husband
ba`al (Hebrew #1167)
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV usage: + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, + have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that are given to it, great, + hairy, he that hath it, have, + horseman, husband, lord, man, + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.
Pronounce: bah'-al
Origin: from 1166
of her youth
na`uwr (Hebrew #5271)
and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'}; properly, passive participle from 5288 as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
KJV usage: childhood, youth.
Pronounce: naw-oor'
Origin: or naur {naw-oor'}
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More on:

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Husband,
sackcloth,
Virgin; Virginity

Cross References

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Lament.
Joel 1:13‑15• 13Gird 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.
 14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
 15Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. (Joel 1:13‑15)
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Joel 2:12‑14• 12Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
 13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
 14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? (Joel 2:12‑14)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: (Isa. 22:12)
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Isa. 24:7‑12• 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
 10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
 11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. (Isa. 24:7‑12)
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Isa. 32:11• 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. (Isa. 32:11)
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Jer. 9:17‑19• 17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
 18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. (Jer. 9:17‑19)
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James 4:8‑9• 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. (James 4:8‑9)
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James 5:1• 1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (James 5:1)
the husband.
Prov. 2:17• 17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. (Prov. 2:17)
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Jer. 3:4• 4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? (Jer. 3:4)
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Mal. 2:15• 15And 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. (Mal. 2:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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