Joel 1:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

Cry loudly, like a young woman who is wearing sackcloth. She is crying at the funeral of the man that she hoped to marry.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Cry like the young woman who was ready to be married, and her husband-to-be was killed.

Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the man she was going to marry.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, [mourning] for the husband of her youth.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Lament like a virgin girt with sackcloth for the spouse of her youth.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My people, sob like a virgin who is dressed in black clothes. She is sad because she has lost the young man she was going to marry.

English NIV

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

Weep with sorrow, as a virgin weeps when her fiance has died.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Lament like a young bride-to-be dressed in sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Weep with sorrow, as a virgin weeps whose fiance is dead.

English Tyndale 1537

Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bride groom.

Joel 1:8 — Compare Translations