Joel 1:5

Joel 1:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.

Context of Joel 1:5

3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. 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. 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. 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. 7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

Joel 1:5 word by word

הָקִ֤יצוּ שִׁכּוֹרִים֙ וּבְכ֔וּ וְהֵילִ֖לוּ כָּל־שֹׁ֣תֵי יָ֑יִן עַל־עָסִ֕יס כִּ֥י נִכְרַ֖ת מִפִּיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Wake upקִיץqûts · to awakeH6974
• you drunkardsשִׁכֹּרshikkôr shikkôr · drunkenH7910
• and weepבָּכָהbâkâh · to weepH1058
• wailיָלַלyâlal · to wailH3213
• allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• you drinkersשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• of wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
• because ofעַל‛al · uponH5921
• the sweet wineעָסִיס‛âsîys · sweetH6071
• forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• it has been cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
• from your mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310

Cross-references for Joel 1:5

• Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
• Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
• Luke 21:34But 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.
• Romans 13:11And 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.
• Joel 1:11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
• Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
• Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’
• James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Isaiah 32:10In 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 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Commentaries on Joel 1:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Awake, ye drunkards - The general destruction of vegetation by these devouring creatures has totally prevented both harvest and vintage; so that there shall not be wine even for necessary uses, much less for the purposes of debauchery. It is well known that the ruin among the vines by locusts prevents the vintage for several years after.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the conscience, blind the soul and make it insensible to its own ills. All the passions, anger, vain glory, ambition, avarice and the rest are a spiritual drunkenness, inebriating the soul, as strong drink doth the body.: “They are called drunkards, who, confused with the love of this world, feel not the ills which they suffer. What…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Wake up … wail: The prophet wanted to alert the people to the seriousness of the locust plague.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Awake--out of your ordinary state of drunken stupor, to realize the cutting off from you of your favorite drink. Even the drunkards (from a Hebrew root, "any strong drink") shall be forced to "howl," though usually laughing in the midst of the greatest national calamities, so palpably and universally shall the calamity affect all. wine ... new wine--"New" or "fresh wine," in Hebrew, is the unfermented, and therefore unintoxicating, sweet juice…Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 1:5

• Drunkard
• Drunkenness
• Locust
• Nation
• Wine

In the dictionaries

• Wine
• Awake
• Joel (2)
• New; Newness
• Wine; Wine Press

Commentaries on Joel 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings