Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
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Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
Jeremiah 4:8For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
Joel 1:11Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
Joel 3:3and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].
Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8
Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →