Joel 1:8

Joel 1:8

6 For ^aa nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^bHis teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a¹ fierce lion.

7 He has ^alaid waste My vine,
And¹ ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

8 ^aLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^bthe husband of her youth.

9 ^aThe grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^bmourn, who minister to the Lord.

10 The field is wasted,
^aThe land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
^bThe new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Lament—O "my land" (Joel 1:6; Isaiah 24:4).

virgin . . . for the husband—A virgin betrothed was regarded as married (Deuteronomy 22:23; Matthew 1:19). The Hebrew for "husband" is "lord" or "possessor," the husband being considered the master of the wife in the East.

of her youth—when the affections are strongest and when sorrow at bereavement is consequently keenest. Suggesting the thought of what Zion's grief ought to be for her separation from Jehovah, the betrothed husband of her early days (Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 16:8; Hosea 2:7; compare Proverbs 2:17; Jeremiah 3:4).

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