Joel 1:5
3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4 What 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.
6 For 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.
7 It 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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- Wake up, O drunkards, and weep; wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it has been cut off from your⁺ mouth!
- ÅB
- Våkn opp, dere drukne, og gråt, og jamre, alle vindrikkere, fordi mosten er revet bort fra deres munn.
- OTB
- Våkn opp, dere drankere, og gråt!
Jamre, alle dere vindrikkere,
for den søte vinen,
for den er tatt fra deres lepper. - B1930
- Våkn op, I drukne, og gråt, og jamre, alle vindrikkere, fordi mosten er revet bort fra eders munn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 21:34–36
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.
Read in contextJames 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:10–12
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.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:7–11
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:8
So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
Read in contextAmos 6:3–7
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
Read in contextLuke 16:19
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Read in contextRomans 13:11–14
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.
Read in context