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 your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children. 4What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat. Wake up and cry, you drunks! Cry loudly, you wine drinkers! New wine has been taken away from you. 6A strong nation attacked my land. It has too many soldiers to count. They have teeth like lions. They have fangs like grown lions. 7They destroyed my grapevines. They ruined my fig trees. They stripped off what they could eat, threw the rest away, and left the branches bare.

Joel 1:5 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Awakeקִיץqûts · to awakeH6974
• ye drunkardsשִׁכֹּרshikkôr shikkôr · drunkenH7910
• and weepבָּכָהbâkâh · to weepH1058
• and howlיָלַלyâlal · to wailH3213
• all ye drinkersשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• of wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
• because of the new wineעָסִיס‛âsîys · sweetH6071
• for it is cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
• from your mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310

Cross-references for Joel 1:5

• Isaiah 24:7New wine dries up, and grapevines waste away. All happy people groan.
• Amos 6:3How horrible it will be for those who think that a day of disaster is far away. They bring the reign of violence closer.
• Luke 21:34“Make sure that you don’t become drunk, hung over, and worried about life. Then that day could suddenly catch you by surprise
• Romans 13:11You know the times ⌞in which we are living⌟. It’s time for you to wake up. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first became believers.
• Joel 1:11Be sad, you farmers! Cry loudly, you grape growers! Mourn for the wheat and the barley. The harvest is destroyed in the field.
• Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, mourn, and cry because the Lord’s burning anger hasn’t turned away from us.
• Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy. Say, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Cry for that day!
• James 5:1Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.
• Isaiah 32:10In a little less than a year you overconfident women will tremble, because the grape harvest will fail and no fruit will be brought in ⌞from the fields⌟.
• Luke 16:19“There was a rich man who wore expensive clothes. Every day was like a party to him.

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