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Joel 1:8

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¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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  1. Isaiah 22:12Rank 1 from verse 8
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    12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

  2. Malachi 2:15Rank 2 from verse 8
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    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.

  3. James 5:1Rank 3 from verse 8
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    1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

  4. Amos 8:10Rank 4 from verse 8
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    10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  5. Isaiah 24:7–12Rank 5 from verse 8
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    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.

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Joel 1:8

COMBINED MEANING

lament

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To mourn, grieve, weep, wail, or express sorrow; an expression or song of grief.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

virgin

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Sense 1: A person who has not had sexual intercourse. Sense 2: Figuratively, a chaste person or a city or people portrayed as a maiden.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

girded

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gird, meaning to fasten clothing or another object around the body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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husband

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Sense 1: A married man in relation to his wife. Sense 2: One who manages or cultivates carefully.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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youth

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Sense 1: The period of life following childhood and preceding mature age. Sense 2: A young person or young people.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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.

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

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9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

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