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— your children to their children, their children to another generation. 4What the locust left, the swarming locust has eaten, and what the swarming locust left, the canker-worm has eaten, and what the canker-worm left, the caterpillar has eaten. Awake, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine— on account of sweet wine, for it is denied to your mouth! 6For a nation has invaded my land. Vast—yes, without number! Its teeth are lion’s teeth, with jaw-teeth of a lioness. 7He has turned my vine to waste and my fig tree to splinters. He has stripped off all the bark and flung it down— its branches are left 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 fails, the vine wilts, all the merry-hearted sigh.
• Amos 6:3Dismissing the day of calamity, you bring near the throne of violence.
• Luke 21:34“But watch out so your hearts are not weighed down by carousing, strong drink, and the worries of life. Do not let that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
• Romans 13:11Besides this, you know the time—that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first came to trust.
• Joel 1:11Be ashamed, O ploughmen; wail, O vinedressers, over wheat and over barley, for the harvest of the field is lost.
• Jeremiah 4:8Therefore, put on sackcloth— lament and wail! For the fierce anger of Adonai has not turned away from us.”
• Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Wail, alas, for the day!
• James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
• Isaiah 32:10Within a year and a few days you will shudder, complacent ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the gathering will not come.
• Luke 16:19“Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, living it up 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
• 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