The Meaning of Joel 1:8 Explained

Joel 1:8

KJV: Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

YLT: Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Darby: Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

ASV: Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Joel 1:8?

MEANING: What does Joel 1:8 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Joel 1:8 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Joel 1:8?

What is the context of Joel 1:8?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

What does Joel 1:8 Mean?

Context Summary

Joel 1:1-20 - A Summons To Penitence

We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory of God's loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man's boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world-empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to lay waste the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession. There are days in national experience when it becomes us to gird ourselves and lament. The ministers and elders of the Church should lead the way. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the wanton world, then joy withers away, Joel 1:12, spiritual worship ceases, Joel 1:9, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return. [source]

Chapter Summary: Joel 1

¹ Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,
⁸ and to mourn
¹⁴ He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments

What do the individual words in Joel 1:8 mean?

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth

אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת־ שַׂ֖ק עַל־ בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽיהָ

אֱלִ֕י	Lament
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular Root: אָלָה Sense: (Qal) to lament, wail.
כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה	like a virgin
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, feminine singular Root: בְּתוּלָה Sense: virgin.
חֲגֻֽרַת־	girded with
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, feminine singular construct Root: חָגַר Sense: to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt.
שַׂ֖ק	sackcloth
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שַׂק Sense: mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking.
בַּ֥עַל	the husband
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בָּעַל Sense: owner, husband, lord.
נְעוּרֶֽיהָ	of her youth
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular Root: נְעוּרִים Sense: youth, early life.

What are the major concepts related to Joel 1:8?

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