Joel 1:8DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 8 of 20
"Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth."
In context
6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast away; the branches thereof are made white.
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.