Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Lamente-toi, comme la vierge qui se revêt d'un sac Pour pleurer l'ami de sa jeunesse!
KJV
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.
KJV
Hebrew original
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sband of her youth being small in comparison to their mourning”: This passage alludes to the Book of Joel 1:8 where a virgin in a sackcloth mourns for the husband to whom she was promised in her youth (ܐܠܝ ܐܝܟ ܒܬܘܠܬܐ ܕܟܒܝܢܐ ܣܩܐ ܥܠ ܒܥܠ ܛܠܝܘܬܗ̇) (Gelston 1980, 17). John’s intention…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
ruerit per Joelem dicitur: Lamentare ad me super sponsam praecinctam sacco in virum ejus virginalem (Joel. I, 8) , dolens eam, eo quod de tam bonis decidisset meritis; ita ut odio contraheret, pro flagitiis habens offendicula delictorum. Hortatur ergo, imo mandat sponsus apud se…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)
, 10) . Audiat utique tristis: Gaudete justi in Domino (Psal. LXII, 1) . Laetus: Plange quasi virgo (Joel. I, 8) . Tristis: Gaude et laetare, filia Sion (Thren. IV, 21) . Laetus: Quantum exaltavit se, et in deliciis et laetitia fuit, tantum date ei luctum et planctum (Apoc. XVI…
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