8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:8 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 8-13)The judgment is here described as very lamentable, and such as all sorts of people should share in; it shall not only rob the drunkards of their pleasure (if that were the worst of it, it might be the better borne), but it shall deprive others of their necessary subsistence, who are therefore called to lament (Joel 1:8), as a virgin laments the death of her lover to whom she was espoused, but not ...
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