The command to lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth suggests mourning comparable to the grief of a widow for a newly dead husband, the most acute form of bereavement. The comparison indicates that the loss of the harvest is comparable to the loss of a beloved person, that agricultural devastation constitutes profound human tragedy. This verse establishes mourning as the appropriate response to judgment.

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