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

我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。

你要像童女腰束麻布，为她年少时的丈夫哀号。

你要像童女腰束麻布，为她年少时的丈夫哀号。

我的子民啊，你们要像死了未婚夫的少女，穿上丧服痛哭哀号。

你们要哀号，像少女腰束麻布，为她幼年时许配的丈夫哀号一样。

我的民哪，你當哀號，像處女腰束麻布，為幼年的丈夫哀號。

你要像童女腰束麻布，為她年少時的丈夫哀號。

你要像童女腰束麻布，為她年少時的丈夫哀號。

我的子民啊，你們要像死了未婚夫的少女，穿上喪服痛哭哀號。

你們要哀號，像少女腰束麻布，為她幼年時許配的丈夫哀號一樣。

哀哦，像處女腰束麻布哦，為年少時的未婚夫哀號哦。

爾其哀哭、若少女束麻、哭其少時之夫、

委而棄之、爾當哀哭、若女未笄而字人、夫沒、身衣衰絰、

我民、爾當哀哭、若少女幼年嫁夫、夫沒、腰間繫麻、為夫哀哭、或作我民爾當哀哭如貞女腰間繫麻哀哭幼年所嫁之夫

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

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

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

Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.

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

Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.

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

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

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

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

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

On that day the Lord God of Hosts called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Consider, and summon the women who mourn; send for the skillful women.Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.

The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink it.The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.In the streets they cry for wine. All joy grows dark; earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.Woe because of that day! For the Day of the Lord is near and will come as devastation from the Almighty.

who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

Have you not lately called to Me,“ My Father. You were my friend in my youth.

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

Shudder, you complacent ones; tremble, you overconfident ones! Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Even now— this is the Lord’s declaration— turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and He relents from sending disaster.Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, so you can offer grain and wine to the Lord your God.