John Trapp on Joel 1:8

Verſe 8. Lament like a Virgin] Our Prophet hath done with his drunkards: and now applyeth himſelf to the ſoberer ſort, whom alſo he calleth to deep and downright mourning, in this caſe of common calamity; there being not any ſo innocent and holy, but had ſome hand, if not upon the greater cart-ropes yet ſurely upon the ſmaller cords that drew down dearth and judgment upon the land.

lament therefore like a Virgin] betrothed, but bereft of her eſpouſed husband, before ſhe was married to him; So Piſcator. Others underſtand it of her that (lately a virgin, but now new-married) paſſionately loved her husband and bitterly bewaileth his death; which ſome young women have taken ſo grievouſly, that they have refuſed to live any longer; but have choſen to put an end to their life and grief together, as hiſtorians teſtify.

girded with Sackcloth] Sacco non ſerico, with mourning weeds as a teſtimony of, help to your humiliation. The dead we ſee, may be lawfully lamented: indeed it is one of the dues of the dead. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Justa defunctorum. It is fit that the body, when ſown in corruption, ſhould be watered by the tears of thoſe that plant it in the earth. Only we muſt not mourn in this caſe as heathens Without hope. 1 Theſ. 4.13. Our grief muſt not be exceſſive, either for meaſure or continuance; Neither muſt we mourn ſo much for our friends departed, as for our ſins againſt God. In the former caſe baldneſs is forbidden: in the later it is required Iſa. 22.12. And Zach. 12.10.11.13. One poor woman weeping over Chriſt ſhall be as deeply affected as all the people were in that unſpeakable loſſe of their good king Joſiah, at Hadadrimmon in the vally of Megiddo, where Jeremiah lamented, and all the ſinging men and ſinging women ſpake of Joſiah in their lamentation, and made them an ordinance &c. 2 Chron. 35.24.25.