Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, For the new wine, which is snatched from your mouths!
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Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth; The vine languisheth; All that were of a joyful heart do sigh;
Jeremiah 4:8For this cause gird on sackcloth, Lament and howl! For the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
Joel 1:11Lament, O ye husbandmen, Howl, O ye vine-dressers, For the wheat and the barley, For the harvest of the field hath perished!
Joel 3:3Yea, they cast lots for my people, And gave a boy for a harlot, And sold a damsel for wine to drink.
Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day come upon you 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 →