Joel 1:5
Wake up, you drunks, and weep! Howl you wine drinkers, because the new wine has been suddenly taken away from your mouth!
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Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.
Jeremiah 4:8Wear clothes made of sackcloth, weep and wail, crying out, “The Lord's furious anger against us hasn't stopped.”
Joel 1:11Be ashamed, farmers, and wail in sorrow, keepers of vineyards, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops from the fields are ruined.
Joel 3:3They cast lots for my people; they traded boys in payment for prostitutes and girls to buy wine to drink.
Luke 16:19Once there was a man who was rich. He wore purple clothes and fine linen, and enjoyed a luxurious life.
Luke 21:34Watch out that you don't become distracted by partying or getting drunk or by the worries of this life, so that this day catches you by surprise.
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 →