A moment in scripture
Joel 1:8
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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The surrounding passage
- 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 1:9
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.