Verse Comparison: Joel 1:8
<< Joel 1:7 Joel 1:9 >> American Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.Amplified® Bible
Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].Contemporary English Version
Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.Darby English Version
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.Good News Bible
Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.New American Standard Bible
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.New International Version
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth
grieving for the husband of her youth.New King James Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the husband of her youth.N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.Revised Standard Version
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.Young's Literal Translation
Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
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