Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.
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Isaiah 24:7Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
Jeremiah 4:8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
Joel 1:11Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.
Joel 3:3And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.
Luke 16:19'And — a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
Luke 21:34'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
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 →