Joel 1:5 “Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, beca…”

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

American Standard Version

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Geneva Bible 1599

Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newe wine: for it shalbe pulled from your mouth.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

Bible in Basic English

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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Cross references

“Awake”

Luke 21:34–36 Isaiah 24:7–11 Amos 6:3–7 Romans 13:11–14

Luke 21:34–36 · BSB

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Isaiah 24:7–11 · BSB

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Amos 6:3–7 · BSB

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Romans 13:11–14 · BSB

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

“weep”

James 5:1 Jeremiah 4:8 Joel 1:11 Joel 1:13 Ezekiel 30:2

James 5:1 · BSB

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

Jeremiah 4:8 · BSB

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Joel 1:11 · BSB

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:13 · BSB

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Ezekiel 30:2 · BSB

“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’

“for”

Isaiah 32:10–12 Luke 16:19 Luke 16:23–25

Isaiah 32:10–12 · BSB

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Luke 16:19 · BSB

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Luke 16:23–25 · BSB

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

Also

Joel 3:3

Joel 3:3 · BSB

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

6For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

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