Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θρήνησον πρὸς μὲ ὑπὲρ νύμφην περιεζωσμένην σάκκον ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς τὸν παρθενικόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת שַׂ֖ק עַל בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Youth, whom she espoused first. Such are more tenderly loved, particularly where polygamy prevails. (Calmet)
So Dido speaks of Sichæus, Virgil, Æneid iv.:
Ille meos primus qui se mihi junxit amores
Abstulit, ille habeat secum servetque sepulchro.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.