Joel 1:5

Awake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; 1 and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, 1 because of the new wine, for it is cut off 1 from your mouth. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

4That which the locust swarm hath left 1 hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; 1 and that which the arbeh hath left 1 hath the crawling locust eaten; 1 and that which the crawling locust hath left 1 hath the other locust eaten. 1

6For a Goy is come up upon my land, 1 strong, and without number, 1 whose teeth are the teeth of an aryeh (lion), 1 and he hath the fangs of a lioness. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:7The tirosh (new wine) faileth, the gefen languisheth, 1 all the simchei-lev (merryhearted) do sigh. 1

Jeremiah 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, 1 lament and wail; 1 for the charon af Hashem 1 is not turned away from us.

Joel 1:11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; + 1:11 i.e., farmers 1 wail, O ye vinedressers, 1 for the wheat and for the barley; 1 because the katzir (harvest) of the sadeh is perished. 1

Joel 3:3And I will show mofetim in the heavens and in the earth, dahm, and eish, and pillars of smoke.

Luke 16:19Now there was a certain oisher (rich man). He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and yom yom (daily) he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was to make a simcha. + 16:19 Ezek 16:49

Luke 21:34And be shomer regarding yourselves lest your levavot (hearts) may be burdened with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of the Olam HaZeh and Yom HaHu (That Day) may come upon you PITOM + 21:34 Mal 3:1 (suddenly).

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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