Mourn like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the [a]husband of her youth.

The meat offering and the drink offering is [b]cut off from the house of the Lord: the Priests the Lord’s ministers mourn.

10 The field is wasted: the land mourneth: for the corn is destroyed: [c]the new wine is dried up, and the oil is decayed.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:8 Mourn grievously, as a woman which hath lost her husband to whom she hath been married in her youth.
  2. Joel 1:9 The tokens of God’s wrath did appear in his Temple, insomuch as God’s service was left off.
  3. Joel 1:10 All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth(A)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Grain offerings and drink offerings(B)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(C)
    those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;(D)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine(E) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.(F)

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