Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom 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.

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.

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!

In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

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

Have you not just now called to me,‘ My father, you are the friend of my youth—

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.

“ Yet even now,” declares the Lord,“ return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?