Strong, and without number;
bHis teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a1 fierce lion.
And1 ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests bmourn, who minister to the Lord.
aThe land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
bThe new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely bjoy has withered away from the sons of men.
Mourning for the Land
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Call ba sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And call the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.
For bthe day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep1 suffer punishment.
For bfire has devoured the open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
For bthe water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the1 open pastures.
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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.
New English Translation
Wail1 like a young virgin2 clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of3 her husband-to-be.4
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