Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth 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.

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!

And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’”

The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases.They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction.

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord.Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.

Will you not from this time cry to Me,‘ My father, You are the guide of my youth?

But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Lament 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 mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!

Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.

“ Now, therefore,” says the Lord,“ Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him— A grain offering and a drink offering For the Lord your God?