Yea, [a]a nation cometh upon my land, mighty and without number, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaws of a great lion.

He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the bark of my fig tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it down: the branches thereof are made white.

Mourn like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the [b]husband of her youth.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:6 This was another plague wherewith God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.
  2. Joel 1:8 Mourn grievously, as a woman which hath lost her husband to whom she hath been married in her youth.

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