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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined, and all your sweet wine is gone.

Context of Joel 1:5

3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. 4What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten. 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. 6A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness. 7It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

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 24:7The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
• Amos 6:3You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
• Luke 21:34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
• Romans 13:11And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
• Joel 1:11Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
• Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.
• Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Wail and say, “Alas for that day!”
• James 5:1Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.
• Isaiah 32:10In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.
• Luke 16:19“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.

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

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