Joel 1:8

Lament. Feminine. agreeing with "land", Joel 1:6.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lament like a virgin - The prophet addresses the congregation of Israel, as one espoused to God ; “‘Lament thou,’ daughter of Zion,” or the like....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 h...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The land is bidden to mourn as bitterly as a maiden mourning her betrothed, dead ere the marriage day. For most terrible consequence of the famine ca...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 marr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 impro...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 g...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 reme...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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....
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 lo...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 un...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 hi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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;...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lament , &c. The prophet here calls upon the inhabitants of Judea to deprecate this grievous judgment, by humiliation and unfeigned sorrow for t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 amon...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 la...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 bli...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 ei...
The Biblical Illustrator

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep. The insensibility and misery of the drunkard The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nati...
The Biblical Illustrator

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of the Calamity
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lament like a virgin, girded with sackcloth, the dress of mourning, for the husband of her youth, whom, after their betrothal, death took away. The...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The husband of her youth — Espoused to her, but snatched away by an untimely death.

⁸ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Related Commentaries of Joel 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joel 1:8