Joel 1:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

New Living Translation
Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.

English Standard Version
Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

Berean Study Bible
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

New American Standard Bible
Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.

NASB 1995
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

NASB 1977
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

Amplified Bible
Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].

Christian Standard Bible
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

Contemporary English Version
Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.

Good News Translation
Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the man she was going to marry.

International Standard Version
"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.

NET Bible
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

New King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.

King James 2000 Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

New Heart English Bible
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

World English Bible
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

American King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

A Faithful Version
Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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

English Revised Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Lament as a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the husbande of her youth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Make yi mone as a virgin doth, yt gyrdeth her selfe with sacke, because of hir bryde grome.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Wail, as a virgin girds with sackcloth, "" For the husband of her youth.

Young's Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Smith's Literal Translation
Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Howl like a virgin who is clothed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Lamsa Bible
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
















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