Joel 1:5

Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

6For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion’s teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion’s whelp.

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

Jeremiah 4:8For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.

Joel 1:11the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.

Joel 3:3And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

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 →

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