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

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.

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

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

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

At that time the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

The LORD who rules over all told me to say to this people,“ Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!”I said,“ Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail,‘ We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.’”

The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Even now you say to me,‘ You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double- minded.Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

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

Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves– put sackcloth on your waist!

“ Yet even now,” the LORD says,“ return to me with all your heart– with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!”Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love– often relenting from calamitous punishment.Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake– a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the LORD your God!