Joel 1:8
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Joel 1:8 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Joel 1:8 is a verse from the book of Joel in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Joel 1:8 — KJV
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
— Joel 1:8 (KJV)
Joel 1:8 in Context — About the Book of Joel
Joel turns a devastating locust plague into a call for national fasting — then pivots to one of Scripture's greatest promises: I will restore the years the locusts have eaten, and afterward I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Peter quoted it at Pentecost as fulfilled.
Cross-References for Joel 1:8
“The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.”
Shares key themes with Joel 1:8: virgin, girded, sackcloth
“And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.”
Shares key themes with Joel 1:8: virgin, husband
“If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;”
Shares key themes with Joel 1:8: virgin, husband
“And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. brother's: or, next kinsman's”
Shares key themes with Joel 1:8: like, husband
“Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:”
Shares key themes with Joel 1:8: like, husband
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