“ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ”
Lament like a virgin - The prophet addresses the congregation of Israel, as one espoused to God ; “‘Lament thou,’ daughter of Zion,” or the like. He bids her lament, with the bitterest of sorrows...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (e) husband of her youth. (e) Mourn grievously as a woman who has lost her husband, to whom she has been married in her youth.
The Distress Caused by the Plague. Joel 1:5-7 . The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are...
Lament. Feminine. agreeing with "land", Joel 1:6 .
The Prophet now addresses the whole land. Lament, he says; not in an ordinary way, but like a widow, whose husband is dead, whom she had married when young. The love, we know, of a young man...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Lament like a virgin - for the husband of her youth - Virgin is a very improper version here. The original is בתולה bethulah,...
Lament like a virgin— A young woman. Houbigant. These words are an apostrophe to the land of Judah; the prophet puts her in mind, that she ought to be deeply affected with the heavy strokes of di...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Lament - O "my land" ( Joel 1:6 ; Isaiah 24:4 ). Like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband. A virgin be...
The Coming of the Locusts a Harbinger of the Day of the Lord After the title ( Joel 1:1 ), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts ( Joel 1:2-4 ), an...
For the husband of her youth. — The land is addressed as a virgin betrothed, but not yet married, and forfeiting her marriage by unworthy conduct. Such was the relation of Israel to the Lord: He wa...
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 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. Th...
Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible l...
Under the figure of a swarm of insects destroying the fruits of the earth, is represented the judgment of the Lord upon a guilty land. It is blessed to observe, how the Lord pleads with his people by...
Lament like a virgin ,.... This is not the continuation of the prophet's speech to the drunkards; but, as Aben Ezra observes, he either speaks to himself, or to the land the Targum supplies it, O co...
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Ver. 8. Lament like a virgin ] Our prophet hath done with his drunkards; and now applieth himself to the soberer sort, whom...
Lament , &c. The prophet here calls upon the inhabitants of Judea to deprecate this grievous judgment, by humiliation and unfeigned sorrow for their sins; like a virgin for the husband of her y...
Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for...
The vicious and wicked among the Jews were alarmed and threatened in the former part of the chapter; now the prophet bespeaks the good and godly among them to prepare for mournful times. Lament: th...
A Description of the Plague And Its Consequences ( Joel 1:6-18 ). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 1:8 . A virgin ] The impersonated nation to lament with the sorrow and despair of a young girl, whose hopes have been blighted, and her beloved taken away by a stroke ( Ez...
Joel 1:1 . Joel, the son of Pethuel. Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presume...
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep. The insensibility and misery of the drunkard The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtak...
EXPOSITION Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the...
A Description of the Calamity
Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 24:7-12 ; Isaiah 32:11 ; James 4:8 ; James 4:9 ; James 5:1 ; Jeremiah 3:4 ; Jeremiah 9:17-19 ; Joel 1:13-15 ; Joel 2:12-14 ; Malachi 2:15 ; Proverbs 2:17
The husband of her youth — Espoused to her, but snatched away by an untimely death.